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Recently two more leaders, former MLC Nizamuddin Khatana and Gulzar Ahmad resigned from the Democratic Azad Progressive Party led by former J&K chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, providing a chance to senior Congress leader, Jairam Ramesh to describe Azad’s newly floated political party as a “Disappearing Azad Party.”
“After Melbourne the fastest pitch to have the highest number of wicket fall is DAP”, Jairam Ramesh tweeted.
Earlier Ramesh had asked Azad to join Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. “If Ghulam Nabi Azad believes in Gandhian philosophy and secularism, he should join Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra”, he had stated.
During the past few days the DAP has suffered massive setbacks as the former senior Congress leaders who had joined the party have called it quits and have returned to their party. While rejoining the Congress party they apologized for going with the former J&K chief minister.
After the leaders left the DAP, Azad tried to downplay the development. He wished all his former colleagues best of luck for the future and assured the people that they need not worry. He and his other colleagues are capable of fighting for their rights. He claimed that the voters are with him and the leaders who left his party are without a constituency.
Azad snapping his ties with the Congress Party after 50-years had triggered a spree of resignations in Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee as most of the senior leaders had tendered their resignation in support of Azad, but now they have returned back to their parent party.
Azad seems to be unfazed due to his old colleagues saying goodbye to his new party as he seems confident enough to make a mark on his own. He is also aware of the fact that J&K Congress is marred with factionalism and the ones who left him don’t pose any threat to his constituency.
Being a former J&K chief minister, Azad is aware about the strength and weakness of his old party in the Union Territory. The Congress has been struggling in J&K since 2014 after it lost power. Many of its strong leaders have changed the turfs and the ones who are still in the party are not that strong even in the areas that were considered as their bastions not long ago. |
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