Ghulam Nabi Azad quits Congress, says Rahul Gandhi ‘demolished party’s consultative mechanism’
Veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday quit the Congress party and resigned from all his posts. In a five-page letter addressed to party president Sonia Gandhi, Azad said the situation in the Congress has reached the point of “no return”.
“The entire organisational election process is a sham and sham. Nowhere in the country elections have been held at the level of the organization at any level. The elected lieutenants of the AICC have been compelled to sign the lists prepared by the troupe that runs the AICC sitting at 24 Akbar Road,” Azad said.
He said that after Rahul Gandhi entered politics, especially after he was appointed the party’s vice-president in 2013, “the whole consultation mechanism that existed earlier was demolished by him”.
“The entire organisational election process is a sham and sham. Nowhere in the country elections have been held at the level of the organization at any level. The elected lieutenants of the AICC have been compelled to sign the lists prepared by the troupe that runs the AICC sitting at 24 Akbar Road,” Azad said.
“All senior and experienced leaders were sidelined and a new circle of inexperienced sycophants ran the affairs of the party,” he said.
“Since 2014 under your leadership and later under Rahul Gandhi, the INC has lost two Lok Sabha elections in a humiliating manner. It has lost 39 out of 49 assembly elections held between 2014-2022. The party won only four state elections and was able to come to an alliance position in six cases. Unfortunately, today Congress is ruling only two states and has very minor alliance partners in two other states.
“Since the 2019 elections, the party’s condition has only worsened. You took over as the interim president after Rahul Gandhi stepped down in a panic before insulting all senior party functionaries who laid down their lives at the Extended Working Committee meeting.
A position that you are still holding for the last three years. Worse yet, the ‘remote control model’ that undermines the institutional integrity of the UPA government has now been implemented in the Indian National Congress. While you are only a nominal person, all important decisions were being taken by Rahul Gandhi or rather by his security guards and PA’s worse,” Azad said.
“In August of 2020 when I and 22 other senior colleagues, including former Union ministers and chief ministers, wrote to you to mark the lousy drift in the party, the congregation chose to take down their sycophants and attacked us, defamed and humiliated. The crudest way possible. Today I was cremated in Jammu on the instructions of the AICC troupe.
The perpetrators of this indiscipline were personally welcomed by AICC General Secretaries and Rahul Gandhi in Delhi. The same troupe then instigated their goons to physically attack the residence of former minister aide Kapil Sibal, who was defending you and your family members in the courts of law for your alleged attacks of incidental lapses and commissions,” said Azad.
“The only crime committed by the 23 senior leaders who wrote this letter for the party was that they pointed out both the reasons for the weaknesses of the party and its remedies. Unfortunately, instead of taking those ideas on board constructively and collaboratively, we were abused, humiliated, humiliated and defamed in the specially convened meeting of the extended CWC meeting.
“Unfortunately, the position of the Congress party has reached such a point of no return that now proxies are being used to take over the leadership of the party. This experiment is doomed to fail as the party is so widely destroyed that the situation has become irreparable,” he said. “Plus, the chosen one will be nothing more than a puppet on a string.”
Azad also questioned where the Congress was worth in the 75th year of India’s independence.
Azad, who recalled his years of service to the party in his letter, said that it was “with great regret and an extremely generous heart that I have decided to break my half-century-old association with the Indian National Congress. ”
Last week, Azad resigned from the organisational post of Jammu and Kashmir citing health problems.
