Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 20: Almost one and half months have passed after 17 ex-loyalists of Ghulam Nabi Azad rejoined the Congress but the party high command has yet not taken any step to “rehabilitate” those who were on “leave”.
While ex-loyalists of Azad from Kashmir Valley have been involved in day to day activities of the party, Jammu-based leaders are still missing from political activities.
Except for symbolic presence during the entry of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir, Tara Chand and other senior leaders are still sidelined in the Congress party.
Either “Tara Chand and others” have been sidelined in the Congress or they are deliberately maintaining a distance from the activities of the party.
After the completion of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, over a dozen important events were held in Jammu in which central leaders were present but “Tara and others” were missing from all these events.
On February 17, Bharatsinh Solanki, former Union Minister, and AICC observer for J&K addressed an important function at Jammu in connection with the ‘Haath se Haath Jodo’ campaign but Tara Chand was not present in the function.
Similarly, on the same day, AICC leader and AICC incharge of party affairs in Punjab and Chandigarh, Harish Choudhary was in Jammu but the former Deputy Chief Minister was also missing from that function.
Notably, at least seventeen loyalists of Ghulam Nabi Azad, including two political stalwarts who were expelled from the Democratic Azad Party (DAP), rejoined the Congress party in New Delhi on January 6, 2023.
Former Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand along with former J&K Congress chief Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed, ex-MLA Thakur Balwan Singh, and others rejoined the Congress party.
The leaders had resigned in support of former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, who later floated his own party—the Democratic Azad Party, which has now been renamed as Democratic Progressive Azad Party. |
