BREAKING: Ghulam Nabi Azad Severed All Ties With Congress
Aug 26: Senior Congress leader and party loyal, Ghulam Nabi Azad has resigned from all organisational positions including primary membership of the party on Friday. Azad said that he has severed all ties with the Congress.
In his resignation letter, Azad said that he was tendering his resignation with a “heavy” heart. He said that before starting ‘Bharat Jodo’, the Congress should have started the ‘Congress Jodo’.
In a big setback for the #Congress, its veteran leader #GhulamNabiAzad (@ghulamnazad) has resigned from the party, alleging that “a coterie was running the party” and that the party should exercise ‘Congress Jodo’ before going ahead with ‘#BharatJodo‘. pic.twitter.com/jfXBoZai2R
— IANS (@ians_india) August 26, 2022
In his letter he said, “You are aware that I had an extremely close personal relationship with your family from Late Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Late Shri Sanjay Gandhi onwards, including with your Late husband. In that spirit I also have great personal regard for your individual trials and tribulations which would always continue.”
“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 Indian National Congress,” he added
He 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 Bharat 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,” he wrote in the letter
Earlier on August 17, Azad had quit the post of the chairman of the campaign committee and from the political affairs committee of the Jammu and Kashmir Congress, just hours after his appointment.
The veteran leader, who had joined the Congress in the early 1970s, had long been upset with the party of being ignored and sidelined.
With IANS Inputs…
