Massive jolt to Congress in J&K as 51 leaders set to resign and join Ghulam Nabi Azad’s party

Mangalore Today News Network

Srinagar, Aug 30, 2022: Even as the Congress reels from the resignation of top leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, the worse seems to have not passed as 51 leaders are set to resign and join Azad’s new party. Since Azad’s resignation, 64 leaders have left the party.

 

The leaders include former Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief minister Tara Chand who resigned from the party in support of Ghulam Nabi Azad here on Tuesday.

They submitted a joint resignation letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

Chand and several others, including former ministers Abdul Majid Wani, Manohar Lal Sharma, Gharu Ram and former MLA Balwan Singh, announced their resignations from their party, including its primary membership, at a press conference.

"We have submitted a joint resignation letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi in support of Azad," Balwan Singh said.

Azad, 73, a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, ended his five-decade association with the Congress on Friday, terming the party “comprehensively destroyed” and lashing out at Rahul Gandhi for “demolishing” its entire consultative mechanism.

He will soon a launch a national-level party from Jammu and Kashmir.

Over a dozen prominent Congress leaders, including former ministers and legislators, besides hundreds of Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI) members, municipal corporators and district and block level leaders have already left the Congress to join Azad.

Courtesy: India Today