"Pained Over His Decision": Congress's Digvijaya Singh On GN Azad's Resignation
NDTV
Digvijaya Singh said Ghulam Nabi Azad resigned from the Congress at a time when party president Sonia Gandhi is undergoing medical treatment abroad.
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday said he was pained over the resignation of senior colleague Ghulam Nabi Azad, whom he said, the party gave everything, sending him to the Rajya Sabha five times besides making him a Union minister and also Jammu and Kashmir chief minister.
He said Mr Azad (73) resigned from the Congress at a time when party president Sonia Gandhi is undergoing medical treatment abroad.
The Rajya Sabha MP said Mr Azad, a prominent member of the 'G23' dissident group in the Congress, got so much from the party during his decades-long political career.
"I and Ghulam Nabi Azad entered politics at the same time. He lost the 1977 Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir and his deposit was forfeited. We are of the same age and have good relations and today we have. But I am pained over his decision.
