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Up to date: August 31, 2022 11:23 PM IS
New Delhi [India]August 31 (ANI): The Congress has no downside with the departure of Ghulam Nabi Azad however there might be some impression on a couple of seats in Chenab Valley and surrounding areas within the Meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir, social gathering sources mentioned.
It is because political exercise in JK has gained momentum forward of the Meeting elections.
The social gathering alleged that Azad by no means allowed any chief to develop in Jammu and Kashmir whereas including that the individuals who left the social gathering due to Azad will quickly rejoin the social gathering.
Get together sources mentioned Azad had been planning to stop the Congress for 2 years however because of the COVID-19 pandemic, he postponed taking the choice.
“Within the final seven-eight years, Azad has not participated in any AICC program in Jammu and Kashmir. The individuals who left the social gathering due to Azad will quickly rejoin the social gathering. Azad had been planning to go away the Congress social gathering for 2 years. “however on account of Covid there was delay in taking the choice. Ghulam Nabi Azad has an in depth affiliation with the BJP and Azad additionally has the assist of central businesses within the state,” the sources claimed.
It was additional mentioned that Azad is a part of an even bigger conspiracy, talking in response to another person’s script, including that the folks of Jammu and Kashmir will quickly know who he works for.
Talking about these main allegations, a supply working for the Congress’s Jammu and Kashmir unit mentioned the social gathering has no downside with Azad’s exit. Nonetheless, there might be some impression on a couple of seats within the Chenab Valley and surrounding areas.
“The Congress technique is obvious: the state president and the working president will go to all of the seats within the state and a lot of folks will be part of the Congress social gathering. These within the Congress social gathering who used to profit from Azad have disappeared and can proceed to take action. Individuals like former deputy chief ministers Tarachand and Manohar Lal, who got here to Congress until a day earlier than Azad left the social gathering and mentioned we’ll clarify it to Azad Saheb, additionally left the social gathering,” the sources mentioned.
Talking about Azad’s allegations towards Congress, the supply mentioned Azad’s assertion that the social gathering didn’t have in mind the views of the state committees is totally incorrect.
“Rahul Gandhi himself spoke to Azad to search out out what downside he has with the Congress, however Ghulam Nabi Azad by no means gave a transparent reply,” the supply mentioned.
The Congress social gathering anticipated Azad to say one thing on the Bilkis Bano concern, however he stored quiet, which made the social gathering uneasy.
Speaking in regards to the regional events with which the Congress will type an alliance for the meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir, he mentioned the Congress will discover the probabilities of an alliance with the Nationwide Convention.
Former Union minister Azad, who stop the Congress final week and determined to type a political social gathering, will maintain a public assembly at Sainik Colony in Jammu on September 4.
This might be his first assembly since ending his almost 50-year affiliation with Congress.
Azad has mentioned that he’ll quickly launch a brand new social gathering and the primary unit might be shaped in Jammu and Kashmir in view of the upcoming Meeting elections. Azad served as Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 2005 to 2008.
With Azad signaling that he’ll type a brand new social gathering, a number of leaders have resigned from the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir.
Former Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Tara Chand is among the many 64 leaders who’ve resigned from the Congress.
In a sign of his political standing at the same time as he has resigned from Congress, three social gathering leaders who’re members of the Group of 23 met him at his residence within the nationwide capital on Tuesday. Azad was additionally a member of the G-23.
In his resignation letter to Sonia Gandhi, Azad had focused the social gathering management, particularly Rahul Gandhi, over the way in which the social gathering was being run for the previous nearly 9 years.
Within the hard-hitting five-page letter, Azad had alleged {that a} cabal is working the social gathering whereas Sonia Gandhi was solely “a nominal head” and all main selections have been taken by “Rahul Gandhi or worse, his safety guards and PAs”.
Azad had mentioned that he resigned with “nice remorse and a particularly heavy coronary heart” and that he would break his resignation over the 50-year affiliation with the Congress. He was beforehand Chief of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha.
Speaking about his lengthy affiliation with the Congress, Azad mentioned the scenario within the social gathering has reached some extent of no return.
“Sadly, the scenario within the Congress Get together has reached such some extent of no return that ‘proxies’ are actually being supported to take over the management of the social gathering. This experiment is doomed to failure as a result of the social gathering has been so utterly destroyed that the scenario has turn into irreparable. Furthermore, the ‘chosen one’ could be nothing greater than a puppet on a string,” he mentioned.
Whereas Azad took potshots at Sonia Gandhi within the letter, his sharpest assault was on Rahul Gandhi and he described the Wayand MP as “unserious particular person” and “immature”. (ANI)
