Lessons for Public Life in Jammu and Kashmir Leader Girdhari Lal Dogra, Says PM Narendra Modi at His Centenary Celebrations

Jammu: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley are in Jammu, where they are taking part in the centenary celebrations of Jammu and Kashmir leader Girdhari Lal Dogra.

Here are the highlights of what the PM said:

• Unfortunate in politics that after death, few political leaders stay alive.
• They are forgotten.
• But some legends are such that the kind of life they lead and what they do, they become immortal - Girdhari Lal ji is among them.
• Not a single person of his family is seen in his photographs.
• That's a big thing that in such a long political life, and having been in power, with close ties with PMs, he had not a single family member in his photographs.
• Family can be seen only in one picture - his funeral.
• It is a message for today's politics.
• He followed principals of public life.
• Dogra was a good judge of persons.
• He appointed Ghulam Nabi as youth Congress leader.
• The example is the sons-in-law he has chosen (referring to Arun Jaitley).
• In this case, son-in-law not known because of the father-in-law or vice versa.
• These days we know what kind of things are said about damads (sons-in-law).
• Political untouchability is not right.
• Dogra would have opposed us, maybe he would have opposed his son-in-law.
• This is the holy month of Ramzan.
• I wish everyone the best for the occasion of Eid.