As expected, Azad breaks his 50-year-old bond with Congress

Azad is overambitious!

• The game has been started in 2015 during the election of Rajya Sabha member when Azad has won the election and BJP candidate Chander Mohan Sharma lost the election.
• In Maharashtra defection has been created in Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde and in J&K it will be led by Gulam Nabi Azad.
•  Blaming AICC VP Rahul Gandhi for demolishing consultative mechanism in party; says all senior leaders were side-lined to accommodate new coterie of sycophants; Plans to float new political party in J&K.
•  Azad was wanting his supremacy in Congress as he enjoyed for last 50 years, whereas, he should understand that new entrants should be given chance and he bless them but his ambitiousness is above than humanity.
•  Some Azad loyalists have resigned from the party just some minutes after his resignation.
• In politics there is no permanent friend or permanent enemy but everyone looks after opportunity to come in power that too while compromising with all sort of ethics.

jj correspondent

Srinagar, Aug 26: As it was expected that Gulam Nabi Azad can ditch Congress anytime for his political ambitious today he resigned from all posts of the party including primary membership. With his resignation there is political storm in jammu & Kashmir politics as Ghulam Nabi Azad parted his ways with Congress after remaining in the party for 50-long years.
The political observers has seen as a setback to the party that is already facing many challenges at both national and regional levels but some believe that there would be no effect in the party cadre.
Blaming the All India Congress Committee (AICC) Vice President, Rahul Gandhi for “demolishing the consultative mechanism” in the party, Azad in his five-page resignation letter said that after his appointment as VP in 2013, all senior and experienced leaders were side-lined and new coterie of inexperienced sycophants started running the affairs of the party.
In his resignation letter addressed to AICC’s interim president Sonia Gandhi, Azad said that “While you are just a nominal figurehead all the important decisions were being taken by Rahul Gandhi or rather worse his security guard’s and PA’s.”
Sharing his experience and work in Congress since his joining in 1970’s, Azad said, “I am recounting all these years of selfless service just to underscore my life long association with this great institution that I also served recently as the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha for 7 years. I have spent every working moment of my adult life in the service of the Indian National Congress at the cost of my health and family.”
Whereas political observers felt that he enjoyed the power only due to the mercy of Congress party the party had allowed him to chose the constituency from where he can easily win and he won the elections out of J&K in past.
The letter further read: “Under your stewardship since 2014 and subsequently that of Rahul Gandhi, the INC has lost two Lok Sabha elections in a humiliating manner. It has lost 39 out of the 49 assembly elections held between 2014-2022. The Party only won four state elections and was able to get into a coalition situation in six instances. Unfortunately, today, the INC is ruling in only two states and is a very marginal coalition partner in two other states.”
The letter further states that since the 2019 elections, the situation in the party has only worsened. “After Rahul Gandhi stepped down in a ‘huff and not before insulting all the senior Party functionaries who have given their lives to the party in a meeting of the extended Working Committee, you took over as interim President. A position that you have continue to hold even today for the past three years,” it said, adding that “Worse still the “remote control model that demolished the institutional integrity of the UPA government now got applied to the Indian National Congress. While you are just a nominal figurehead all the important decisions were being taken by Rahul Gandhi or rather worse his security guard’s and PA’s.”
It said that unfortunately, the situation in the Congress party has reached such a point of no return that now proxies are being propped up to take over the leadership of the Party. “This experiment is doomed to fail because the Party has been so comprehensively destroyed that situation has become irretrievable. Moreover, the ‘chosen one’ would be nothing more than a puppet on a string. Unfortunately, at the National level we have conceded the political space available to us to the BJP and state level space to regional parties. This all happened because the leadership in the past 08 years has tried to foist a non-serious individual at the helm of the Party,” the letter reads. “The entire organizational election process is a farce and a sham. At no place anywhere in the country have elections been held at any level of the organisation.”
The handpicked lieutenants of the AICC have been coerced to sign on lists prepared by the coterie that runs the AICC sitting in 24 Akbar Road.
“At no place in a booth, block, district or state was an electoral roll published, nominations invited, scrutinized, polling booths set up and elections held. The AICC leadership is squarely responsible for perpetrating a giant fraud on the party to perpetuate its hold on the ruins of what once was a national movement that fought for and attained the Independence of India. Does the Indian National Congress deserve this in the 75th year of India’s independence is a question that the AICC leadership must ask itself,” the letter said. “For all the reasons mentioned above especially that the Indian National Congress has lost both the will and the ability under the tutelage of the Coterie that runs the AICC to fight for what is right for India. In fact, before starting Bharath Jodo Yatra the leadership should have undertaken a Congress Jodo exercise across the country. It is therefore with great regret and an extremely leaden heart that I have decided to sever my half a century old association with the Indian National Congress and hereby resign from all my positions including the primary membership of the Indian National Congress.”
Meanwhile, Azad is all set to float a new political podium in Jammu & Kashmir, sources said, adding that a new party led by him would likely be launched in September, 2022.
Sources said that the discussion over floating the new political party was going on for several months after the leaders observed that they were being ignored and sidelined in the party.
“Everything has been almost finalized and the announcement with regard to the launch of new political party will be made soon,” they said.
Meanwhile the Azad loyalists around a dozen senior Congress leaders including former ministers and legislative have resigned from the party in support of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Former Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha,Ghulam Nabi Azad who parted ways from Congress after 50-years on Friday.
There are reports that just after some minutes, Azad parted ways from Congress, five leaders, including former minister Ghulam Muhammad Saroori, a party stalwart from Chenab valley region and front runner for JKPCC president post along with Haji Abdul Rashid party’s face in Kashmir Baramulla, Mohd Amin Bhat from Kulgam Kashmir, Gulzar Ahmad Wani from Anantnag and Choudhary Mohammad Akram, submitted a joint letter of resignation.
All of them said they were resigning from the basic membership of the party in support of Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Furthermore, Former Minister Jugal Kishor Sharma from Reasi, Former Minister R S Chib, two former MLCs Sham Lal Bhagat and Naresh Gupta, Congress National spokesperson Salman Nazmi, district presidents from Doda and Kishtwar also parted away from Congress party.
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad resigned from the party ahead of organisational elections, terming it comprehensively destroyed and accusing the leadership of committing fraud” on the party in the name of “sham” internal polls.
Delivering another blow to the embattled party that has seen a series of high profile exits, including that of Kapil Sibal, Ashwani Kumar, and Anand Sharma in the recent past, Azad wrote a five page no holds barred letter to the Congress president detailing his grievances.
Ending his over five decade association with the party, including from its primary membership, the 73-year-old leader said the party had “lost both the will and ability under the tutelage of the coterie” running the affairs of the party to fight for what is right for India.
The Congress termed the move was very unfortunate and the timing awful, coming at a time the party is engaged in combating the BJP on issues of price rise and unemployment.
Pertinently, the Ghulam Nabi Azad group has been upset for quite sometimes and launched a campaign to unseat former chief GA Mir. However, the camp suffered a blow after AICC appointed Vikar Rassool Wani, a member of Azad group as new chief. Rasool and Saroori belong to erstwhile Doda districts and remained MLA for consecutive three terms from 2002 to 2018. However, annoyed with the appointment of Rasool as new head replacing GA Mir, ‘what they said much junior’, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Ghulam Mohammad Saroori refused to assume the charge of post in the Campaign Committee.
Many Congress leaders resigned after that, what they said as humiliation to Azad.