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| Azad concedes defeat, says not interested in state politics | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 6: Union Health Minister and former J&K Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has conceded defeat and declared that he would not take part in the state politics. He has said: "He is not interested in J&K politics". He made this statement only the other day at Srinagar and he made this statement when a handful of his supporters urged Ghulam, Nabi Azad to take active interest in the state politics so that JKPCC chief Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz is shown his rightful place. Earlier also, he had disappointed his supporters when he told media persons in Jammu that he was "no longer interested in J&K politics".
Given the situation, Ghulam Nabi Azad had no other option left but to say goodbye to the state politics. Almost all of his supporters in the state have virtually severed their connections with the former Chief Minister. Most of them are not even on talking terms. They are so fed up with the former Chief Minister that they use very harass words against him.
Their complaint against him is that he used and exploited them for promoting his personal agenda and after grinding his axe he left them in the lurch. Another complaint of his erstwhile supporters is that they maintained a long distance from the JKPCC president and the JKPCC with the hope that the former Chief Minister would take care of them and rehabilitate them suitably in the JKPCC or in the government, but he has only "ditched them".
Some Jammu-based Congress leaders, who hitherto were very close to Ghulam Nabi Azad and who worked relentlessly during the last assembly elections to ensure the victory of the Congress in the Jammu region, have told the Early Times on condition of anonymity that "Ghulam Nabi Azad has not only harmed their interests and abandoned them, but also harmed the interests of the people of Jammu province". In this regard, they referred to April 5, 2010 Srinagar statement and asserted that the "Union Health Minister has discriminated against the people of Jammu province". The statement said: "52 posts for the post-graduate students would be made available for their recruitment. This will include 32 for Kashmir division and 20 for Jammu division".
So much so, they dismissed Ghulam Nabi Azad as "spineless, selfish to the core and unscrupulous" and told the Early Times that they committed a great blunder by pinning faith in him and siding with him. The lamented that had they joined the Prof Saif-ud-Din camp, their plight would not have been miserable and they would have been suitably rewarded.
The former Chief Minister should blame himself for the changed attitude of his supporters.
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