Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad resigns

By  Firstdespatch Desk   Aug 26, 2022

New Delhi, Aug 26 (FD) In a significant development, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday resigned from all party positions, including its primary membership, delivering another blow to the embattled party that has seen a series of leaders leave it.

In a five page letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, he said he does so with a "heavy heart".

The Congress, he said, has lost both the will and the ability under tutelage of the coterie that runs the AICC to fight for what is right for India, Azad, part of the G-23 group seeking change in party, said.

Before starting a 'Bharat jodo yatra', the leadership should have undertaken a 'Congress jodo yatra', the veteran leader said in his letter.

Azad started his career in 1973 as the secretary for the Block Congress Committee in Bhalessa. Two years later, he was nominated as the president of the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Youth Congress.

During his political journey he served as a Health Minister of India and in many other portfolios. FD JK