Mumbai: Ghulam Nabi Azad has resigned from all positions including the primary membership of Congress party. Earlier this month, Azad had resigned from the post of chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir campaign committee, hours after his appointment.
In a difficult 5-page note to party interim president Sonia Gandhi, Azad claimed that a congregation runs the party while she was just a nominal head and that all major decisions were taken by “Shri Rahul Gandhi or rather worse his security guards and PAs”
“The development comes days after Azad resigned from the organizational post of Jammu and Kashmir.
Recalling his long association with the Congress and his close association with Indira Gandhi, Azad said the position of the Congress party had reached the point of “no return”.
“The whole organizational election process is a sham and a sham. Nowhere in the country have elections been held at the organisational level. The elected lieutenants of the AICC were forced to sign the lists prepared by the troupe running the AICC Has gone. Sitting at 24 Akbar Road,” wrote Azad.
Taking a jibe at Rahul Gandhi, Azad wrote, “Since the 2019 elections, the situation in the party has worsened. After that Rahul Gandhi stepped into ‘Ashank’ and not before insulting all the senior functionaries of the party. Party You took over as the Interim Chairman at the Extended Working Committee meeting of 2014. A position which you are still holding for the last three years.”
Azad said it was the “worse still ‘remote control model’ that had demolished the institutional integrity of the UPA government, which has now been implemented in the Indian National Congress.”
He continued to attack Rahul Gandhi but praised Sonia Gandhi for playing the “sterling” role as Congress president in both the UPA governments.
Assad’s resignation comes ahead of the 2024 elections and after indications that the election to the post of Congress chief would be postponed again. The top leadership of Congress has announced ‘Bharat Jodi Yatra’.
In his letter, Azad said, “As President of the Indian National Congress, you undoubtedly played an important role in the formation of both the UPA-I and UPA-II governments.
However, a major reason for this success was that as President Apart from heeding the wise advice of senior leaders, you worked to trust their judgment and delegate powers. However, unfortunately after Mr. Rahul Gandhi’s entry into politics and especially after January 2013 when he was appointed by you as the Vice President, the entire advisory system that existed earlier by him was destroyed.
Azad further alleged that Rahul Gandhi sidelined all senior and experienced leaders.
“All senior and experienced leaders were sidelined and a new circle of inexperienced sycophants ran the affairs of the party. The most vivid example of this immaturity was the tearing down of a government ordinance by Mr Rahul Gandhi under the glare of the entire media. The ordinance was included in the Congress Core Group and subsequently approved unanimously by the Union Cabinet headed by the Prime Minister of India and duly approved by the President of India. This ‘childish’ behaviour completely reversed the authority of the Prime Minister and the Government of India. This single action contributed significantly to the defeat of the UPA government in 2014, which was at the end of a campaign of condemnation and censure by a combination of right-wing forces and some unscrupulous corporate interests. Azad wrote.
“Ghulam Nabi Azad is one of the groups of 23 leaders who were vocal about a leadership change in the Congress and not being dependent on the Gandhi family for every major decision of the Congress party.
Among the prominent Congress leaders who have left the party are Jyotiraditiya Scindia, who is now a Union minister and Jitin Prasada.”
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