Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad resigned from all positions in the Congress party, including primary membership, in a letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday.
“Under the tutelage of the coterie that runs the AICC, the Indian National Congress has lost both the will and the ability to fight for what is right for India,” Azad wrote in his resignation letter to Sonia Gandhi.
“It is thus with great regret and an extremely leaden heart that I have decided to sever my half-century-long association with the Indian National Congress,” Azad wrote in a five-page resignation letter.
This latest high-profile departure from the Congress party comes after the election for Congress President was postponed. Azad’s resignation follows a series of exits of several senior leaders from the party, including Jyotiraditya Scindia, Jaiveer Shergil, and Jitin Prasada.
This came just days after Azad resigned as chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Congress’ campaign and political affairs committees shortly after his appointment.
Azad’s move came after disgruntled voices within the Congress’s J&K unit reached a fever pitch after the Congress leadership restructured the entire unit. “We are dissatisfied because senior leaders were not consulted before deciding on the J&K PCC chief.” We resigned from the party’s coordination committee in protest of the PCC chief’s recent announcements. “I have resigned from the primary membership of the Congress,” said former Congress MLA Haji Abdul Rashid Dar.
Ghulam Nabi Azad is one of the 23 leaders who have spoken out in support of a change in leadership in the Congress and the party’s freedom from the Gandhi family on major decisions.
