In support of the resignation of the veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad five more leaders of Congress resigned from their positions on Friday.
Meanwhile, the five leaders who resigned from their posts are GM Saroori, Haji Abdul Rashid, Mohd Amin Bhat, Gulzar Ahmad Wani, and Choudhary Mohd Akram.
“We the five ex-MLAs are resigning from the Congress party in support of Ghulam Nabi Azad. Now, only the JKPC president will be left alone,” J&K Congress leader GM Saroori said.
Earlier in the day Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad resigned from all the party positions including from the party.
Azad wrote a five-page letter to Congress president Sonia and said senior leaders have been sidelined and a “coterie of inexperienced sycophants” are taking all the decisions.
“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,” Azad wrote in the letter.
“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,” Azad’s leader read.
The senior leader also lashed out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and blamed him for Congress’s poor performances in elections.
“One of the most glaring examples of this immaturity was the tearing up of a government ordinance in the full glare of the media by Rahul Gandhi… This ‘childish’ behavior completely subverted the authority of the Prime Minister and the Government of India. This one single action more than anything else contributed significantly to the defeat of the UPA government in 2014,” wrote Azad in the letter.
Hitting on Rahul Gandhi Azad further 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.”
However, on 16 August Azad quit the post of the head of the Jammu and Kashmir Congress campaign committee. On Wednesday Jaiveer Shergill resigned as Congress spokesperson.