BJP to go it alone in Haryana

AMBALA, Oct 12: The BJP will go to the hustings on its own steam and will not ally with any other party in future in Haryana. This was th...

AMBALA, Oct 12: The BJP will go to the hustings on its own steam and will not ally with any other party in future in Haryana. This was the message given to the party functionaries, who assembled here, to attend a one-day workshop here yesterday.

The sessions of the workshop attended by the office bearers from five Assembly segments of Ambala, Ambala Cantonment, Naggal, Mullana and Naraingarh were addressed by the leaders from the state high command and presided over by the district president of the party, Bharat Bhushan Jatwar.

The workshop was organised to motivate the rank and file of the party to bring around the people of the state to the party’s point of view and also rid them of the tendency of looking towards another party for support.

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The consensus opinion among the speakers was that the workers should maintain their individuality and should not hanker after individual interests while taking up the problems of the people with the authorities. The workers who complained of having been ignored by the officials in the state when they approached the latter, were promptly snubbed and warned against approaching the officials for personal interests.

The leader who spoke on the occasion included state party vice-president O.P. Dhankhar, secretary Ratan Lal Kataria, Planning Board deputy chairman Kailash Sharma and treasurer Purushotam Deshmukh besides the incharge of Ambala and Panchkula districts. They called upon the workers to rally round the Pradesh president, Om Prakash Grover, who they felt, had been working to strengthen the organisation by putting in place the tarnished image of the party.

The workshop discussed at length, the experiment of alliance government with other parties at the Centre. This was the seventh workshop in this district and next such workshop will be held Kalka in Panchkula district in the beginning of the next month.

Condemned: The District Congress Committee Urban Ambala at its meeting presided over by its president Brij Anand here yesterday through a resolution condemned the release of a booklet titled “Gandhi Badh Kiyon”. (Why Gandhi’s assassination), edited by Prof Balwant Rai Garg, in which the action of Nathu Ram Godse was justified. The resolution sought immediate ban on the booklet which preached hatred.