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Former J&K chief minister and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad saying goodbye to the “Grand Old Party” has triggered a spree of resignations in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Congress leaders in J&K are resigning and are joining Azad. It’s not only the Congress leaders and workers, who are calling it quits. People from other parties too are leaving their formations and are extending support to the veteran leader.
The J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) is finding it hard to keep its unit intact and it appears as if the Congress in J&K was alive only due to Azad’s presence and his resignation appears to have jolted the party in the Union Territory.
J&K Congress incharge Rajni Patil is trying to establish contact with loyalists of Azad but it seems she has been unable to stop the party leaders and workers from joining Azad.
The former J&K chief minister recently stated that he was forced to quit the Congress party. He looked upset and hurt over the party sidelining him after a letter written by the ‘G 23’ group annoyed the party high command. The group had demanded that the party should be reorganized to meet the future challenges. However, the leaders, including Azad, who had signed the letter were taken out of the campaign committee and were also stripped of the party posts. “The family members forced me to leave the house. When people start feeling that you should not be there, a wise person’s job is to leave the place,” Azad said recently.
Azad returning to J&K politics and his plan to float his own party have added another dimension into the political scenario of the Union Territory, where assembly elections could be announced anytime. Azad calling it quits has put the J&K Congress in the quandary and its revival chances look bleak.
Ones who had stuck to the Congress Party in J&K during all these years are leaving the party and are extending their support to Azad as many of them see him as the next chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir. Azad’s move has caused a political quake in the Congress Party and it won’t be easy for the “Grand Old Party” of the country to come out from the shock and regain its lost ground. |
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