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| Azad left with few choices | | | The Congress Party sidelining its veteran leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad, has put a question mark on his political career.
Azad’s term in Rajya Sabha ended last week and it was expected that the party would nominate him from the Rajya Sabha seat in Gujarat that fell vacant after the death of a senior party leader, Ahmed Patel.
According to the media reports the Congress Party is unlikely to nominate Azad from late Patel’s seat in Gujarat and BJP is likely to get a walkover.
It appears that the Congress high command has prepared a strong dossier against Azad. He being a signatory to a letter addressed to the All India Congress Committee (AICC) chief to seek change in party leadership and recently Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, praising him, appear to be the main charges against the veteran leader.
At present Azad doesn’t hold any party post and neither has he been given any role in J&K’s politics. The Congress Party in J&K has lost its relevance as it has not been able to form a DDC chairperson even in one district. The party which shared power in J&K for 12 consecutive years has been left with nothing to show. Not even one DDC chairman in the district.
The Congress party felt the absence of Azad in the recently held DDC polls as the party failed to make any impact. There was no campaign as none of the Congress leaders came forward to lead the party.
Azad at present is at a crossroads. The party which he has remained associated with throughout his life seems to have deserted him and he has been left with only a few options. One of the choices he has is to return to J&K politics but after the state’s conversion into a union territory, politicians have been left with a limited role. So a leader like Azad’s stature may not find it easy to become a part of the politics in Jammu and Kashmir till the statehood is restored.
Even if Azad wants to change his turf it won’t be easy for him as all his life he has followed a particular political ideology.
But if the Congress high command keeps on ignoring Azad and pushing him to the wall then the situation can change. Politics is the art of possibilities and anything is possible. The top leaders of the grand old party should bear it in mind. |
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