Don't worry about leaders till voters are with me: Azad on DAP leaders returning to Congress
India | Jan 07, 2023, 06:25 PM ISTThe leader from Kashmir's remarks come after several of his colleagues left the DAP and switched back to the Congress.
The leader from Kashmir's remarks come after several of his colleagues left the DAP and switched back to the Congress.
Gharwaapasi: 17 former leaders who parted ways from Congress and joined the Democratic Azad Party (DAP) returned to the Congress fold.
Ghulam Nabi Azad quit his 52-year-long association with the Congress party on August 26 and announced his new political outfit 'Democratic Azad Party' in October.
According to the party officials, the three leaders were expelled for anti-party activities.
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad exuded confidence that Congress could give a tough fight to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the upcoming assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat.
Ghulam Nabi Azad has severed all ties with the Congress party. In his resignation, he had targeted party leadership, particularly Rahul Gandhi, over the way the party has been run in the past nearly nine years.
Azad, 73, quit Congress on August 26, terming the party "comprehensively destroyed". He also lashed out at Rahul Gandhi for "demolishing" the party's entire consultative mechanism.
The Resistance Front (TRF), believed to be a shadow group of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, claimed that Azad's recent reinvigoration of J&K's political scene is part of a well-thought-out strategy by Union home minister Amit Shah and NSA Ajit Doval.
Jammu and Kashmir: Azad in his first speech after leaving Congress said when he was the chief minister of the state, he arrested 13 police personnel for staging a fake encounter in which three persons were killed.
Jammu and Kashmir news: Earlier, Azad, in his first public meeting in Jammu after quitting Congress, had announced to launch of his own political outfit that will focus on the restoration of full statehood.
Jammu and Kashmir: Ghulam Nabi Azad ended his five-decade-long association with the Congress on August 26, terming the party "comprehensively destroyed".
Jammu and Kashmir: Azad, a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, was accorded a warm welcome by his supporters who turned up in large numbers at the Jammu airport and took him in a procession to the rally venue.
Ghulam Nabi Azad news: Azad said his resignation from Congress was just a "tip of the iceberg", indicating that he would step up his attack on the Gandhis in the coming days.
Ghulam Nabi Azad counters Congress: After Azad ended his association with Congress last month, the party had alleged that his "DNA has been Modi-fied" and several leaders attacked him citing Modi's speech in Rajya Sabha in February last year.
Azad has categorically said he can't increase even one vote of the BJP and the allegation that he will join the BJP is false.
Sixty-four more leaders, including former deputy chief minister Tara Chand, tendered their resignation and joined the Ghulam Nabi Azad camp.
Jairam Ramesh pokes Azad: Congress workers held a public meeting in Jammu and Kashmir's Bhalessa. Azad had criticized Congress leadership, including Jairam Ramesh after he announced his resignation from the party in a five-page letter to Sonia Gandhi last week.
Ghulam Nabi Azad's Jammu rally: With the timing of Azad's launch event in Jammu and Kashmir coinciding with Gandhi's rally, it will be seen if there are more fireworks on the day the former Congress chief addresses the mega event at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan.
Ghulam Nabi Azad ended his five-decade association with the Congress, terming the party “comprehensively destroyed”.
Congress President Election: While Tharoor declined to comment on whether he would throw his hat into the ring, he has written an article for the Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi in which he called for a "free and fair" election.
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