JAMMU: National Panthers Party held emergency meetings in New Delhi, Jammu, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Chennai, Lucknow and other places to condole the shocking demise of a veteran nationalist, intellectual leader who had grown with impressive leadership right from his student days till he voluntarily retired as Union Minister for Finance.
Prof.Bhim Singh, Chief Patron of National Panthers Party who had know Arun Jaitely from his student life and shared the Supreme Court corridors where he (Arun Jaitley) voluntarily offered to argue detention cases of J&K detenus. His main appearance in Supreme Court was on writ petition filed by Prof.Bhim Singh against the unconstitutional detention of Advocate Ms. Shabnam Lone, the daughter of Abdul Ghani Lone, a Kashmiri leader and she was released.
Mr. Jaitely had very close relation with Jammu and Kashmir and he always offered full legal support to the suffering students and youth in J&K jails. Mr. Jaitely was married to Ms. Sangeeta, the daughter of a senior most Congress leader, Late Mr. Girdhari Lal Dogra and enjoyed tremendous amount of confidence of the people of J&K also. His demise has sent a shock wave in J&K also.
Several Panthers Party leaders expressed heartfelt condolences to the family of the departed leader and wished that God may bless his soul with peace in the heavens. Others who joined the condolence meeting included Rajiv Jolly Khosla, President-Delhi Panthers, Anil Sharma, President, Rajasthan Panthers, Mr. Naresh Ambethkar, President, Tamilnadu Panthers, Shashi Bharat Bhushan from Haryana, Mr. Balwant Singh Mankotia, President-JKNPP, Ms. Anita Thakur, General Secretary-JKNPP, Mohd. Iqbal Choudhary, Vice President-JKNPP, S. Paramjit Singh Marshal, President, Panthers Trade Union, Mr. Sewa Singh Bali and others.