Rahul Gandhi raises the issue of killing of panchayat members in J&K

New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday raised the issue of the security of the panchayat members as well as lack of power due to the refusal of the Jammu and Kashmir government to extend 73rd and 74th Constitutional amendments to the state, even as elected panchayat members continued their mass resignations across Kashmir.

Rahul highlighted the problem at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting in New Delhi, when general secretary Gulchain Singh Charak, hailing from Jammu, raised the issue of killing of panchayat members and asked Congress leaders to take note of the situation.

Intervening after Charak’s speech, Rahul Gandhi asked for strengthening the governance at grass-root levels. “We should not allow the dream to go sour,” sources quoted him telling the CWC members.. Rahul Gandhi later left for Ranchi on a two-day visit to the state to rejuvenate the party. The Congress MP will interact with Congress leaders and workers in the state.

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