A former leader of the Jammu and Kashmir unit of Congress Amin Bhat has claimed that senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who has quit the Congress, will become the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
“Ghulam Nabi Azad will be the next Chief Minister of J&K. We will discuss the way forward, we are not a B team of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),” Bhatt said.
Earlier on 26 August, in support of Ghulam Nabi Azad’s resignation, five more leaders of Jammu and Kashmir resigned from Congress
Meanwhile, Azad resigned from all the posts in Congress on 26 August.
Moreover, Azad wrote a five-page resignation letter to Congress president Sonia and said senior leaders have been sidelined and a “coterie of inexperienced sycophants” are taking all the decisions. He further said, “Shri Rahul Gandhi or rather worse his security guards and PAs.”
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad severs all ties with Congress Party pic.twitter.com/RuVvRqGSj5
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Recounting his association with the Congress Azad said, the Congress party has reached a point of ‘no return.’
“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 organization. Handpicked lieutenants of the AICC have been coerced to sign on lists prepared by the coterie that runs the AICC sitting at 24 Akbar Road,” Azad said.
Azad lashed out at Rahul Gandhi and said, “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 to continue to hold even today for the past three years.”
On joining BJP Azad said, “I will be setting up my outfit in Jammu and Kashmir soon. I will not be joining the BJP.”
However, on 16 August Azad quit the post of the head of the Jammu and Kashmir Congress campaign committee.