Unfortunate, regrettable, says Congress as Ghulam Nabi Azad resigns from party
India Today
The Congress termed senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s decision to quit the party as “most unfortunate” and questioned the timing of his move.
The Congress on Friday said senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s decision to quit the party was “most unfortunate” and questioned the timing of his move.
Briefing the press shortly after Azad’s resignation letter was shared with the media, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh said, “It is most regrettable that this has happened when Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and the entire Congress organisation is engaged in fighting the BJP on issues of price rice, unemployment and polarisation.”
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday resigned from all party positions, including its primary membership, delivering another blow to the embattled party that has seen an exodus of leaders in recent months.
In a five-page no-holds barred letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Azad blamed Rahul Gandhi for his exit. He also called out the growing sycophancy and sidelining of senior leaders in the party.
He described the party as "comprehensively destroyed" and said the Congress at the national level has conceded political space available to it to the BJP and state level space to regional parties.
"This all happened because the leadership in the past eight years has tried to foist a non-serious individual at the helm of the party," he said, in a dig at Rahul Gandhi.
