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Soz as the target of Azad faction Revolt in Congress 1/14/2015 12:27:12 AM Rustam Early Times Report JAMMU, Jan 13: The Ghulam Nabi Azad-led faction in the rejected and unpopular Congress in J&K has demanded resignation of its chief Saif-ud-Din Soz on the ground that the party didn't do well in the assembly elections under his leadership. "The JKPCC chief must own moral responsibility for the poor performance of the Congress party in the state and step down in order to facilitate the appointment of a new party chief who could rejuvenate the Congress party," no less than 21 leading members of the Azad camp on Monday said while demanding the resignation of Soz. The attitude of the critics of Azad is intriguing. It's true that Soz is the party chief and he campaigned for the party candidates in his own way. But it is also a fact that it was Azad, and not Soz, who was the in-charge of the election campaign committee in J&K. AICC chief Sonia Gandhi had appointed Azad as the chief of the election campaign committee. It is obvious that it was the Azad's writ that ran supreme as far as the party's election campaign in the state and selection or nomination of the Congress candidates was concerned. The truth is that the Congress contested the assembly elections under the leadership of Azad and he should be held responsible for the debacle of the Congress party. How could the biased Azad's camp demand resignation of Soz when Azad himself lost his Lok Sabha election to the BJP candidate, who was a novice, with a huge margin? How could this out-on-the-limb faction demand resignation of Soz when the BJP won four out of six seats from the erstwhile Doda district, considered the Azad's pocket borough? It is not Soz who could be held responsible for the bad performance of the Congress in the assembly or the Lok Sabha elections; it is Azad who could be held squarely responsible for the defeat of the Congress. The Congress lost the election in Jammu province because Azad's on-the-eve-of-elections-statement that the existing difference of 13 assembly seats between Kashmir and Jammu will continue even if a new delimitation commission was constituted to redraw the assembly constituencies. Azad made several statements which further alienated the people from the Congress party It is surprising that when the Congress leaders are required to retrospect and examine dispassionately the real causes responsible for the defeat of the Congress party they are indulging in mudslinging and washing dirty linen in public. Such a conduct will not help the party. Instead, it would harm it further.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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