GNS Jammu, September 24: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee condoled the death of Shri Basant Sathe, former Union Minister and veteran Congress leader. A condolence meeting was held at PCC HQ. Shaheedi Chowk, Jammu under the chairmanship of Senior Vice President PCC Shri Dharam Pal Sharma-Ex-MP. The meeting expressed deep shock and grief over the sad demise of Shri Basant Sathe and described him a great politician, parliamentarian and a strong congress leader who served his constituency for several terms and remained union minister for a long time. The leaders conveyed their heartfelt condolence to bereaved family and prayed for peace to the departed soul in heaven. A two minutes silence was observed in the memory of departed soul. Prominent among those who condoled the death S/Shri Amrit Malhotra-MLC, Th. Hari Singh, Yash Paul Khajuria-MLC, S. Gurmukh Singh, Mula Ram; General Secretary & Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma-MLC, Mehrajudin Zargar, Manmohan Singh, Hari Singh Chib, Pardeep Parihar, Ashwani Puri, B.B.Gupta, P.S. Chouhan, Narinder Gupta, Main Nazir Ahmed and others.
GNS Jammu Feb. 29, : A strange situation which was unfortunately created by an affront by Presiding Officer of J&K Assembly to 4 th Estate has finally been brought to close with media persons ending their protest. Peoples Democratic Party in the wake of this development expresses strong hope that not only will such piquant scenes be avoided. But it should augur well for the relationship of legislature and the media.as the latter ‘s role of public awareness and prevention of abuse in state-functioning cannot be underestimated. In a press statement a party spokesman said that PDP has always stood for free battle of ideas in which media has a significant place and they did not deserve the treatment that they met on publishing received information on alleged scams and misuse of authority by government functionaries and politicians . The spokesman said when media rose against excessive behavior and uncalled for remarks taking a princi...
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