By TCN News,
Jammu: Outraged at the alleged faulty ticket distribution process by the Congress in Jammu & Kashmir ahead of the polls in the state, activists of the J&K Sikh Unity Forum burnt effigies of Congress leaders Saif-u-Din Soz and Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Polling for a new assembly starts from November 25 in five phases.
Forum youth president Sardar Puneet Singh, who led the protest demonstration, claimed, “The ticket distribution process of the party high command, whose control was in the hands of Soz and Azad was totally biased and in the favour of several bureaucrats as well as kiths and kins of tall leaders of party but has totally rejected the youth who have dedicated their life to strengthen the roots of the party.”
“The custom of hereditary distribution of tickets being launched and supported by Soz and Azad has brought party today to this stage but still the high command is in deep slumber and has put the responsibility on these two leaders in J&K who have always created such havoc that Congress has never been able to make government without coalition in the state,” he said, according to a release here.
“The reason is the psychic fear of creation of second line leadership in the state where they will not be able or find any space to adjust their favourites,” he said and warned the party high command “to revert its mandate list and prepare fresh lists to include the youth.”
Prominent youth Sikh leaders present on the occasion were Manpreet Singh, Aman Deep Singh, Gursimpreet Singh and Paramjeet Singh, the release said.