Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has resigned from all positions, including primary membership, from the grand old Congress party. Azad has made this move just two months after Kapil Sibal’s departure from the Congress.
PTI quoted Azad as confirming that he will float a new party with a J&K-centric unit to start with. “I am in no hurry as of now to launch a national party but keeping in mind that elections are likely to be held in Jammu and Kashmir, I have decided to launch a unit there soon,” Azad told PTI.
In a letter addressed to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Azad said, with great regret and an extremely heavy heart, he has decided to sever his over half a century old association with the Indian National Congress.
He said, the leadership should have undertaken a Congress Jodo exercise across the country before starting Bharat Jodo Yatra. He said 23 leaders who wrote to point out weaknesses were abused, insulted, humiliated and vilified. “The only crime committed by the 23 senior leaders who wrote that letter out of concern for the Party is that they pointed out both the reasons for the weaknesses in the Party and the remedies thereof. Unfortunately, instead of taking those views on board in a constructive and cooperative manner we were abused, humiliated, insulted and vilified in an specially summoned meeting of the extended CWC meeting” he wrote in the letter.
Congress MP M Tewari said, “Don’t want to go into merits of Mr Azad’s letter, he’d be in best position to explain.But strange that people who don’t have capacity to fight a ward poll, were “chaprasis” of Congress leaders when give “gyaan” about party it’s laughable.”
Senior congress leader Jairam Ramesh accused that Ghulam Nabi Azad’s DNA has been modi-fied. “A man who has been treated with the greatest respect by the Congress leadership has betrayed it by his vicious personal attacks which reveals his true character” he stated.
A man who has been treated by the greatest respect by the Congress leadership has betrayed it by his vicious personal attacks which reveals his true character. GNA's DNA has been modi-fied.
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) August 26, 2022
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