In a 5-page letter, Azad blames Rahul Gandhi for the “destruction” of the Congress party
In a 5-page letter written to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday, August 26, tendered his resignation from all posts within the Congress party. Azad said that the situation in the Congress party has reached such a point of no return that ‘proxies’ are being propped up to take over the leadership of the party.
This is yet another blow to the oldest party after second-generation Congress loyalists Jyotiraditya Scindia, RPN Singh, Sunik Jhankar, Hardik Patel, and Kapil Sibal resigned from the party. The Congress party has seen a series of leaders leave it, off lately.
The senior Congress leader wrote a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, in which he said that he does so with a “heavy heart” and criticized it for having lost its political will.
Azad said in the letter, “Since the 2019 elections the situation in the party has only worsened. Rahul Gandhi stepped down in a huff and not before insulting all the senior party functionaries who have given their lives to the party. While you are just a nominal figurehead all the important decisions were being taken by Rahul Gandhi or rather worse his security guards and personal assistant.”
Ghulam Nabi Azad said, “Congress has conceded the national-level political space available to the BJP and state-level space to regional parties. This happened because the leadership in the past 8 years has tried to foist a non-serious individual at the helm of the party.”
Azad further added that Congress has lost both the will and the ability under the tutelage of the coterie that runs the AICC to fight for what is right for India. Before starting a ‘Bharat jodo yatra‘, the leadership should have undertaken a ‘Congress jodo yatra‘, he said.
Azad had recently resigned from the post of chairman of the campaign committee and from the political affairs committee of the Jammu and Kashmir Congress hours after his appointment. Azad held the leadership squarely responsible for “perpetrating giant fraud on the party”.
“The only crime committed by the 23 senior leaders who wrote that letter out of concern for the party is that they pointed out both the reasons for the weaknesses in the Party and the remedies thereof,” he said.
“Instead of taking those views on board in a constructive and cooperative manner we were abused, humiliated, insulted, and vilified in a specially summoned meeting of the extended CWC meeting,” Azad added.
Azad also criticized the party’s organization election process, calling it a “farce and a sham”. “Handpicked lieutenants of the AICC have been coerced to sign on lists prepared by the coterie that runs the AICC sitting in 24 Akbar Road.”
“However unfortunately after the entry of Shri Rahul Gandhi into politics and particularly after January 2013, when he was made vice-president by you, the entire consultative mechanism which existed earlier was demolished by him,” Azad wrote in the letter.
“All senior and experienced leaders were sidelined and a new coterie of inexperienced sycophants started running the affairs of the party,” he wrote further.
Azad pointed out Rahul Gandhi’s childish behavior saying, “One of the most glaring examples of this immaturity was the tearing up of a government ordinance in the full glare of the media by Shri Rahul Gandhi. The said ordinance was incubated in the Congress Core Group and subsequently unanimously approved by the Union Cabinet presided over by the Prime Minister of India and duly approved even by the President of India. This ‘childish’ behavior completely subverted the authority of the Prime Minister and Government of India.”
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Fading out in grace is not our culture. Once sycophants realize that there is nothing more to lick, the frustration becomes obvious, suddenly remembering the childish behavior of over15 years ago. Any organization that depends on aging leadership which is nearing grave is bound to go to grave itself. The utility of CHAMCHAs is always subject to the whims of the owner. Only a few sycophants are lucky to die before being insulted and made to see the door, in fact not been shown the door is the best respect any sycophant can expect. So the long letters on the eve of departure, without a word of thanks looks cheap and uncouth. Good for the opposition to enjoy the departure.
Well said Vijay. If GNA could hold on to his rajya sabha seat, would he have left congress? There is nothing lick and suck anymore!