By D N Singh
Ghulam Nabi Azad’s disillusionment with the Congress has remained a long drawn issue. Which has now culminated into a final state and as a major set-back to the Congress party.
And that too at a time when the grand old party is trying to reorganize itself in the midst of a very strong headwind blowing in from the NDA.
According to a few veterans in the Congress, who spoke off the records, it is not about Azad leaving the party but, vibes those coming out would somehow affect the morale of the workers down below.
After Azad quitting as the chairman of the campaign and from the political affairs committee of the Jammu & Kashmir Congress, almost as a sequel, the other Congress veteran Anand Sharma has resigned from the chairmanship of the campaign committee of Himachal Pradesh on somewhat similar grounds.
The jitters in the relationship between the party leadership and yet another Congress veteran, Kapil Sibal, is not a secret any longer.
Senior Congress leader and party loyal, Ghulam Nabi Azad has resigned from all organisational positions including primary membership of the party on Friday.
All the above leaders have remained the party loyal and their distancing at this juncture, when the party is trying to sort of realigning itself through the fresh initiatives like Bharat Jodo Yatra, get a very foreboding signal.
He apparently told Sonia Gandhi in his resignation letter that the Congress should have started a Congress Jodo Yatra before starting ‘Bharat jodo yatra’.
Does that mean that the Congress has been suffering the menace of a divisive erosion within and the party high command has failed to read the pulses.
Latest spark was from Jaiveer Shergill who stepped down from the position of the national spokesman of the Congress, was not for nothing.
Or the above leaders were somehow viewed as threats because of their contrarian ideologies to the high command at a few occasions.
All said and done, it is time that the party high command wriggled out ofhe the die hard cast and listen to the outside with its ear to the ground.
