SRINAGAR, Oct 31: Srinagar unit of Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) today organised 'Run for Unity' to mark the birth
anniversary of Country’s
first home minister and first Deputy Prime Minister (Iron man of India)Sardar
Vallabhbhai Patel. Party leaders led by state Vice President Yudhvir Sethi and
Ashok Koul, general secretary of BJP besides people drawn from different
sections of society ran from Nehru Park to Hotel Santoor on Boulverd Road
sending a message of Peace and National Integration.
Speaking on the occasion, Ashok Koul said BJP government led by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is working for 125 Crore people of this largest
democracy in the world and ensuring that all states from Kashmir to Kanyakumari
and North East to Gujarat are developed on same pattern and its people get
equal opportunities of development and prosperity. He said those who had been
dividing country on communal lines always tried to isolate one state of the
other but that's not going to happen in this regime.
He said this National Unity Day to mark birth anniversary of
Iron Man of India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Srinagar wherein large number of
people participated is a message that people irrespective of cast, creed,
region or religion are one and want to take nation to new heights. This is PM's
resolve that peace will be restored in Kashmir and people especially youth made
to live a dignified life.
Yudhvir Sethi said Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was an unmatched
craftsman of national integration who had exceptional leadership capabilities.
He played a great role in uniting the country. Due to his persistence and efficiency,
he is known as the iron man of India. "On his birth anniversary let us
pledge to follow the path of unity and integrity shown by him" he
asserted. Later the participants ran the track and showed their solidarity
towards peace and prosperity.
Paying tributes to Iron man of India, the BJP Vice president
said Rashtriya Ekta Diwas Pledge is to dedicate oneself to preserve Unity,
integrity and security of the nation and also strive hard to spread this
message along his/her fellow countrymen. He urged youth to take this pledge in
the spirit of unification of country which was made possible by the vision and
actions of Sardaar Vallabhbhail Patel. He asked the participants to resolve to
make their individual contributions to ensure internal security of India.
Yudhvir Sethi in his address said Sardar Patel had led the task
of forging a united India. He was also responsible for uniting those provinces
that had been under direct British rule and approximately 565 self-governing
princely states released from British rule. Employing frank diplomacy with the
expressed option to deploy military force, Patel had also persuaded almost
every princely state to accede to India.
His commitment to national integration in the newly independent
country was total and uncompromising, earning him the sobriquet "Iron Man
of India", He said.
Those who also participate Run for Unity were State Vice President Dr.
Darakhshan Andrabi,Vice Chairman SICOP Dr. Ali Mohammad Mir,State Secretary;
Anuradha Charak, State Media Secretary; Altaf Thakur, Incharge State Training
Cell; Raju Charak, Protocol Incharge Kashmir Arif Raja, Office Incharge Kashmir
Mohammad Tahir Mir, Incharge Kisan Mircha Kashmir; M.M War, Ashok Bhat, Asif Masoodi,
Malik Mushtaq Noorabadi, State Secretary youth; Bilal Parry, Manzoor Kulgami,
Ashraf Azad Adv. Syed. Wajahat Hussain,
Wajahat Hussain, Secretary Hilal Ahmad Jan
and others.
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