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Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 22: Suspensive over the new political party to be floated by former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad continued his earlier announcement in this regard has missed the first deadline.
On September 11, Ghulam Nabi Azad while addressing his first rally in Kashmir Valley after snapping 50-year-old relations with the Congress party, declared that the name of the new would be announced within ten days.
September 21 was the deadline to announce the name of the new political party but no announcement in this regard has been made so far.
Not only Azad’s earlier announcement of floating a political party missed the deadline, the former Chief Minister is also “missing from action ” these days.
After conducting a whirlwing tour of the Chenab region of Jammu province and some parts of Kashmir Valley, Azad has not issued any press note during the last some days.
The last public function of Ghulam Nabi Azad was held in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on September 15 after that he is “missing from action”.
Sources close to Azad revealed that the former leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha is keenly watching development in the Congress at the national level. “Azad is waiting for the action of the G-23 leaders during elections for the Congress president”, sources said.
On Wednesday Congress issued notification for the party president elections.
As per notifications nominations to be filed from September 24 to September 30. If necessary, voting will be held on October 17 and the result for the same will be declared on October 19.
As reported earlier, Azad announced on September 11 that he will announce the name of his new political party within 10 days. He reiterated that the core agenda of his party is to restore statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.
Azad announced that programmes and policies of the new party would be formulated by incorporating the wishes and aspirations of all sections of society.
“We will accommodate aspirations of all regions and sub-regions of Jammu and Kashmir while formulating our policies”, Azad said but reiterated that statehood for J&K would be top of his party’s agenda. He also said that he has not promised restoration of Article 370 in his new political agenda because he doesn’t believe in making false promises. |
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