JAMMU, January 30: PDP President and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti felicitated Neete Kour, International Gold Medalist in power-lifting here on Wednesday. PDP Youth leader, Parvez Waffa was also present.
The PDP President felicitated Neete Kour for bringing laurels to the State and assured all possible support.
Mehbooba hailed the efforts of Neete and said that their performance will inspire a lot of young women to take up sports as a career. She also laid stress for involving youth of the State in sports activities to prevent them from falling prey to drugs.
A deputation of people residing Kathua and R S Pura led by PDP Youth leader, Parvez Waffa met PDP President and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and discussed various issues being faced by them.
Parvez apprised the former Chief Minister that the development works started under the regime of PDP Government in Kathua and RS Pura have remained uncompleted due to which the people of the aforesaid areas are facing severe hardships.
The deputation appealed to the former Chief Minister to take necessary steps for starting the languishing projects at the earliest.
The former Chief Minister gave a patient hearing to the deputation and assured for early redressal of their demands. She also appreciated the efforts of Parvez Waffa for showing serious concern towards the sufferings of common masses and asked him to continue this endeavour in resolving the issues of weaker sections of society.
Meanwhile, Akshay Randhawa, Sarpanch along with Sumit Singh and his supporters under the leadership of Parvez Waffa joined PDP in the presence of Mehbooba Mufti.
The newly joined members assured the party leadership that they will work hard to respect the faith posed in them. They said that influenced by the strong policies of Mehbboba Mufti and his dedicated works forced them to join the party fold.
Parvez said that it is only the PDP, which is being led by Mehbooba Mufti, can bring the peace and development in the State.
Criticizing the other political parties, Parvez said that the leaders of some political parties are misleading the people in order to get the power in the State. He urged upon the party workers to work hard to gear up for the forthcoming elections in the State and bring back the PDP into the power, so that more development works should be done by their Party’s President, Mehbooba Mufti in her next tenure as the State Chief Minister. He exhorted upon the party workers to strengthen the party by highlighting the policies and programmes of party at every nook and corner in the State.
Jodh Singh Saini, Narinder Sharma, Rajat Randhawa, Jagish Singh, Farhan Kohli and Varun Gupta were also present.
