Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 5: The announcement of former minister Taj Mohi-ud-Din to return to the Congress party has authenticated the report that the grand-old party has opened the doors for loyalists of Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Before the Assembly elections, over a dozen staunch supporters of Ghulam Nabi Azad had expressed their desire for “Ghar Wapsi” but some local leaders for their petty personal gains sabotaged their return to the party.
During the Assembly elections, Congress's high command rejected the proposal of Azad’s loyalists to rejoin the party. “Had the party high command allowed Azad loyalists to rejoin the party before the Assembly elections, the Congress would have won three to four more seats in Jammu province?”, a source said.
Sources said that Taj Mohi-ud-Din is not an isolated case most of the senior leaders of the Democratic Progressive Azad Party of Ghulam Nabi Azad would rejoin the Congress party.
“During the last couple of months, Ghulam Nabi Azad has been inactive in politics so most of his supporters are uncertain about their future in politics so they are ready to rejoin the Congress party”, sources said.
Important to me Congress has opened the doors for loyalists of Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Congress high command had rejected a proposal of Azad’s loyalists to rejoin the party.
Taj Mohi-ud-Din and other DPAP senior leaders are ready to rejoin the Congress party.
Azad has been inactive in politics so most of his supporters are uncertain about their future in politics.
As reported earlier, some former legislators associated with the DPAP were ready to rejoin the Congress party but some Congress leaders sabotaged the “Ghar Wapsi” of these leaders.
Fearing that the return of these leaders in the Congress party would challenge their supremacy in the party, some Congress leaders misinformed the high command about loyalists of Ghulam Nabi Azad, who were ready to shift their loyalties after realizing that their future was bleak in the DPAP.
As reported earlier by this newspaper, four former legislators from Kashmir Valley, associated with the DPAP, were ready to rejoin Congress.
Meanwhile, Taj Mohi-ud-Din officially announced that he was going to rejoin the Congress party.
Taj Mohi-udi Din had resigned from Congress in August 2022 to join Ghulam Nabi Azad’s DPAP. He was appointed as treasurer of the DPAP.
However, he left DPAP in August last year and contested the 2024 Assembly elections as an independent candidate from the Uri constituency. | 