JAMMU: Prof.Bhim Singh, Chief Patron of National Panthers Party & Executive Chairman of State Legal Aid Committee has urged Shri Ramnath Kovind, the President of India to persuade the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi to follow the established norms and traditions which were invoked by his predecessors since sixties. It was Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru who constituted National Integration Council and it continued till Sardar Manmohan Singh. The difficult social and political issues like Ram Janamabhumi Babri Masjid issue, J&K, North-East, NIC meetings were convened where representatives of various political parties as well as social and eminent personalities from different walks of life participated and brought national consensus to settle the difficult and boiling issues.
NPP Supremo urged the President of India that the present Prime Minister has been avoiding to constitute National Integration Council for the reasons best known to him. It is the time that Prime Minister is persuaded to constitute or reconstitute as he desires fit and appropriate in the interest of national integration. The issues that are being raised in the North-East, J&K and even in the South need to be addressed unanimously without politicizing the existing issues so that a consensus without bias could be generated and the issues resolved in the national interest. This role can only be played by a national institution like NIC so that the social, political or economic and other issues which are likely to erupt and effect the life of a common man in the country.
Prof.Bhim Singh made strong appeal to the President to ensure that NIC is reconstituted and convened without any delay so that the conflicting or inflammable issues could be resolved and settled without delay. This is essential to strengthen National Integration. All the issues being faced by the nation from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Manipur to Dwarka could be addressed and resolved jointly from a platform of NIC as it has been doing in the past.