Ghulam Nabi Azad blames Rahul Gandhi for being ‘non-serious’

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday resigned from all party positions including its primary membership citing the ldquoimmaturityrdquo of Rahul Gandhi whom he blamed for ldquodemolishing the consultative mechanismrdquo in the party Delivering another blow to the embattled party that has seen a series of high profile exits including that of Kapil Sibal and Ashwani Kumar in the recent past Azad wrote that the Congress has lost both the will and the ability under the tutelage of the coterie that runs the AICC to fight for what is right for IndiaIn his fivepage noholdsbarred letter to party president Sonia Gandhi Azad said the Congress at the national level has conceded political space available to it to the BJP and state level space to regional partiesSeveral Kashmiri leaders who also quit with their resignation letters in New Delhi on Friday PicPTIldquoThis all happened because the leadership in the past eight years has tried to foist a nonserious individual at the helm of the partyrdquo alleged Azad who joined the Congress in Jammu amp Kashmir in mid 1970sAlso Read Jharkhand mulls lsquoresort politicsrsquoFall since 2013ldquoUnfortunately after the entry of Shri Rahul Gandhi into politics and particularly after January 2013 when he was appointed as vice president by you the entire consultative mechanism which existed earlier was demolished by himrdquo Azad wroteHimanta Biswa Sarma chief minister AssamldquoAll senior and experienced leaders were sidelined and new coterie of inexperienced sycophants started running the affairs of the partyrdquoldquoUnfortunately the situation in the Congress party has reached such a point of no return that now proxies are being propped up to take over the leadership of the Party This experiment is doomed to fail because the Party has been so comprehensively destroyed that situation has become irretrievable Moreover the chosen one would be nothing more than a puppet on a stringrdquoJairam Ramesh Congress general secretaryThe former Union minister who also governed Jammu amp Kashmir alleged that on the directions of the coterie that runs the AICC today ldquomy mock funeral procession was taken out in JammurdquoAlso Read Pregnant professor accuses JNU administration of harassmentldquoThose who committed this indiscipline were feted in Delhi by the General Secretaries of the AICC and Shri Rahul Gandhi personallyrdquoldquoWhile you Sonia are just a nominal figurehead all the important decisions were being taken by Shri Rahul Gandhi or rather worse his security guards and PAsrdquo he saidlsquoPolls a shamrsquoAzad also termed the entire organisational election process a ldquofarce and a shamrdquo ldquoHandpicked lieutenants of the AICC have been coerced to sign on lists prepared by the coterie than runs the AICC sitting in 24 Akbar Road At no place in a booth block district or state was an electoral roll publishedrdquo he saidldquoThe AICC leadership is squarely responsible for perpetrating a giant fraud on the party to perpetuate its hold on the ruins of what once was a national movement that fought for and attained the Independence of Indiardquo Azad told Sonia GandhiReferring to the letter written by him and 22 other leaders in August 2020 to flag the ldquoabysmal driftrdquo in the party Azad said that instead of taking those views on board in a constructive and cooperative manner ldquowe were abused humiliated insulted and vilified in a specially summoned meeting of the extended CWC meetingrdquoMid 1970sWhen Azad joined the Indian National Congress2013Year when Congressrsquos downfall started as Azad claimsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever