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| Soz, Azad brawl comes in open | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 14: In sordid turn of events, the brawl between two top Congress leaders of Jammu and Kashmir –Ghulam Nabi Azad and Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz –has now come to be fought through the media.
A day after a section of press carried Union Health Minister Ghulam Azad’s statement directed against an unnamed Congress leader, the PCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz today hit back by a counter-statement again targeting an unnamed Congress leader. No guesses needed, the unnamed leader in Azad’s statements is obviously Soz and in Soz’s statements it is Azad.
In his statement issued to the press today, Soz said, “I regret to say that a section of press in Jammu and Kashmir have published a statement of a senior leader casting insinuation on my integrity and probity. The statement gives an impression that I was behind the stories that got published in a section of press recently suggesting the role of the senior leader in destabilizing the Cong-NC alliance in Jammu and Kashmir. The insinuations directed against me are nothing but a pack of lies”.
Soz clarified that he had not spoken to any journalist on this issue and was not behind stories published against Azad.
Without naming Azad, Soz said, “what the leader had spoken to groups of people during his long tours of the J&K State recently and the leaks of his speeches is now public knowledge. All the stories on that tour appeared in various news papers. As for the particular stories, against which he directed his ire and extreme anger against me, the names of journalists had also appeared and the truth could easily be nailed if he had tried to do so”.
He added, “it is politically absurd and ethically obnoxious to indulge in character assassination and blackmail of the kind his statement reflected. If he is prepared to nail the truth and proves my involvement, I will apologise publicly. The media persons in the length and breadth of the State know me for not saying anything off the record. There was absolutely no justification for the leader to lose his cool and go to the extreme of indecency, unnecessarily”.
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