Team News Riveting
New Delhi, August 26
Another senior Congressman joined the league of leaders leaving the grand old party with veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad today resigning from the party.
The action came only after tearing into Congress president Sonia Gandhi for letting the party go adrift and applying UPA’s remote control model to the Congress. The 73-year-old leader from Kashmir resigned from all posts including primary membership of the Congress, ending his 50-year-old association with the party.
Asserting the ongoing organisational elections as a mock, he described it as a “giant fraud on the party to perpetuate its hold on the ruins of what once was a national movement that fought for and won India’s independence.”
Just ahead of the September 7 Bharat Jodo Yatra, Azad, in a jibe at Sonia, said she should have first undertaken a ‘Congress jodo’ exercise across India.
Azad said the Congress had reached a point of no return with Sonia Gandhi serving as a nominal figure head since 2019 and all decisions being taken by Rahul Gandhi or “worse still his security guards and personal assistants”.
For the first time, Azad, a former minister in the UPA, slammed Rahul Gandhi’s act of publicly tearing an ordinance approved by the then cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and later by then President and noted, “This one single action more than anything else contributed significantly to the defeat of the UPA government in 2014 that was at the receiving end of a campaign of calumny and insinuation from a combination of forces of the right-wing and certain unscrupulous corporate interests.”
The former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister hinted at forming a new party with “colleagues” saying, “Some of my other colleagues and I will now persevere to perpetuate the ideals for which we have dedicated our entire adult lives outside the formal fold of the Congress.”
Meanwhile, many senior Congress leaders of J&K have resigned from the party is support of Ghulam Nabi Azad. These include GM Saroori, Haji Abdul Radhid, Mohd Amin Bhat, Gulzar Ahmad Wani and Choudhary Mohd Akram.
