INDIA: Congress Veteran and former Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad called it off and resigned from all his posts in the Congress party. In the last week, the Congress party head resigned from the organisational post of Jammu and Kashmir, mentioning health decoration.
In a five-page letter, the Minister addressed the party president Sonia Gandhi by declaring that the Congress party’s situation has reached a point where there is “no return”.
He added, “The entire organisational election process is a farce and a sham. At no place anywhere in the country have elections been held at any level of the organisation. Handpicked lieutenants of the AICC have been coerced to sign on lists prepared by the coterie that runs the AICC sitting in 24 Akbar Road.”
He even targeted Rahul Gandhi, by saying that since he entered politics, especially after his appointment as the party’s vice-president in 2013, “the entire consultative mechanism which existed earlier was demolished by him”.
All of the party’s senior and experienced leaders were removed, according to Azad, and a new group of inept sycophants took over as party leaders.
Ghulam Nabi Azad even took a dig at Rahul’s childish behaviour and decision-making abilities at the party. He wrote, “This childish behaviour completely subverted the authority of the Prime Minister and the government of India.”
“Under your stewardship since 2014 and subsequently that of Rahul Gandhi, the INC has lost two Lok Sabha elections in a humiliating manner. It has lost 39 out of the 49 assembly elections held between 2014-2022.”
Ghulam claimed that during that time the party only won four state elections and was able to get into a coalition situation in six instances.
Ghulam Nabi Azad said that since the 2019 elections, the situation in the party had only worsened.
“After Rahul Gandhi stepped down in a huff and not before insulting all the senior party functionaries who have given their lives to the party in a meeting of the extended Working Committee, you took over as interim president. A position that you have continued to hold even today for the past three years.”
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