GN Azad Explains To Congress "G-23" Leaders Why He Stop "With out Telling"

GN Azad Explains To Congress "G-23" Leaders Why He Stop "With out Telling" [ad_1]

Ghulam Nabi Azad has mentioned he'll launch a celebration in Jammu and Kashmir

New Delhi:

Ghulam Nabi Azad, who give up the Congress on Friday, at the moment met with three leaders of the get together who have been a part of the "G-23" or group of dissenters - Anand Sharma, Prithviraj Chavan and Bhupinder Hooda.

The leaders visited Mr Azad at his residence in Delhi and requested him "first hand" why he give up with out consulting them and why he did so even after Sonia Gandhi introduced inner elections for a brand new Congress president, in line with former Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan.

Mr Azad claimed his place had change into untenable due to "palace intrigue" towards him by a piece of the Congress, in line with Mr Chavan.

Mr Chavan welcomed the get together elections and in addition the Gandhis' refusal to run for president. "Elections must be free and truthful," he mentioned.

Mr Azad give up his get together of 5 a long time on Friday, slamming Rahul Gandhi in a five-letter resignation letter to Sonia Gandhi. He accused Rahul Gandhi of "infantile behaviour and immaturity" and blamed him for the Congress's decline and election defeats.

He exited the get together weeks earlier than the October 17 election for a brand new Congress president.

Anand Sharma expressed shock and mentioned the event would "ache all Congressmen".  "It is a critical improvement and can ache all Congressmen. I am personally shocked. This case was solely avoidable. We have been hopeful that there could be critical introspection however sadly, that course of was subverted," Mr Sharma mentioned, shortly after Mr Azad's exit was introduced.

Mr Azad, 73, had led the "G-23" or 23 dissenters who wrote to Sonia Gandhi in 2020 urging a whole overhaul of the Congress and "clear, full-time and visual management".

The "insurgent" group, which included leaders like Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tewari and Mukul Wasnik, was very vocal in demanding sweeping organizational adjustments within the Congress to arrest its management drift.

One other outstanding member of the group, Kapil Sibal, left the get together in Could.

Mr Azad has mentioned he'll launch a celebration in Jammu and Kashmir. The announcement has triggered an exodus within the Jammu and Kashmir Congress.

Some 64 senior Congress leaders, together with former Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand, give up at the moment in assist of Mr Azad.

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