Dr Farooq, Omar pay tribute to ‘Shaa’ir-e-Kashmir’ Mahjoor

Srinagar, Apr 08: National Conference (NC) President Dr Farooq Abdullah and Vice President & Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday paid tributes to Shaa’ir-e-Kashmir Pirzada Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor on the observance of the annual Mahjoor Day.
Dr Farooq in his message said, “As the bard of nature and voice of working classes, Mahjoor stands supreme. His love of Nature was probably truer, and tenderer, than that of any other Kashmiri poets before or since. He occupies an independent status in the poetic circles of Kashmir on account of his giving voice to the sorrow-stricken hearts of people of his era; his couplets are obsessed with the emotions of the realities of his era.”
The NC Chief added, “Mahjoor’s poems became the nationalist anthems of the people of Kashmir in their struggle against feudalism and autocracy. The struggle of political awakening and dissent brought about by Sher-e-Kashmir also echoes in his poetry. On this day I pay glowing tributes to the great poet of ours.”
Paying tributes to Mahjoor, CM Omar Abdullah said, “I pay my tributes to Shaa’ir-e-Kashmir Peerzada Ghulam Ahmed Mahjoor on his death anniversary, observed as Mahjoor day. Mahjoor stands supreme as the cry of the wordless weak and as a perceptive bard of nature. His poems had become the anthems of the struggle of political awakening brought about by Sher-e-Kashmir among the people of Jammu and Kashmir.”
Party General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar, Additional General Secretary Dr Sheikh Mustufa Kamal, Speaker J&K Assembly A R Rather, Treasurer Shami Oberoi, Advisor to HCM Nasir Aslam Wani, Chief Spokesperson Tanvir Sadiq, Provincial President Showkat Mir, Former MP Sharief Ud Din Shariq, senior leader Muhammad Shafi Uri, Party MPs Mian Altaf Ahmad, Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi also paid tributes to Shaa’ir- e-Kashmir Mahjoor on Mahjoor Day.