Suhail Khan
Srinagar, July 16 (KINS): Bharatiya Janata Party’s national vice-president and Kashmir affairs In-charge, Avinash Rai Khanna Thursday said that the party stands with the workers and is working for the solution of their problems.
“We are solving the problems of workers whether it is at their personal level or administrative level. A party worker should talk to the party before he chooses to resign,” Khanna told news agency Kashmir Indepth News Service (KINS) over phone from New Delhi.
On 9 July, Bandipora BJP leader Sheikh Waseem Bari along with his brother Umar Sultan and father Bashir Ahmad Sheikh were shot dead by militants.
The incident took place at the shop-cum-residence of BJP leader Wasim Bari.
The killing of BJP’s Bandipora leader along with his father and brother, has led to a sense of fear among the saffron party functionaries and workers across Kashmir, with some among them resigning in a hurry.
He said that 63 workers have been provided accommodation in security covered buildings in Anantnag. “In fact, we are concerned about the security of the entire Jammu and Kashmir population,” he said while replying to a query.
Immediately after the Bandipora killings, BJP’s youth wing president of Baramulla district Maroof Bhat announced his resignation on Facebook.
A social activist from Handwara, Mubeena Bano, who had joined BJP a few months before, also resigned from the party.
BJP’s vice president for Kupwara Asif Ahmad had also resigned from the party. Earlier on Wednesday, a BJP leader Mehraj ud Din Malla, who was reportedly “abducted” in the morning returned home in the evening. The resignations and the panic among BJP activists followed the killing of the party’s leader Wasim Bari, his brother and father, who were shot dead despite having 10 personal security officers (PSOs) and living nearby a police station.
On 12 July, BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav and a delegation of senior BJP leaders visited the union territory to offer condolences to the family of the party’s local leader Wasim Bari and his father and his younger brother.
Later, they attend a condolence meeting at Srinagar’s Tagore Hall. The delegation included Union Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office and Udhampur MP Dr Jitendra Singh, BJP national vice-president Avinash Rai Khanna and J&K BJP president Ravinder Raina.(KINS)
