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NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad in a letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday resigned from all positions of the Congress party including the primary membership of the party.
"The Indian National 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," wrote Azad in his resignation letter to Sonia Gandhi.
Calling time on his lifelong association with the Congress, Ghulam Nabi Azad gave a brutal assessment of the party and its leadership in his resignation letter. Here are the key ten takeaways:
"The Indian National 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," wrote Azad in his resignation letter to Sonia Gandhi.
Calling time on his lifelong association with the Congress, Ghulam Nabi Azad gave a brutal assessment of the party and its leadership in his resignation letter. Here are the key ten takeaways:
- Long innings: Azad gave a detailed description of his stint in Congress, emphasising that he joined in the mid-1970s and had done so at the insistence of the late Sanjay Gandhi. He mentioned his jail stint as a member of the Youth Congress in 1978-79 and said he had served as a Union minister in the governments of
Indira Gandhi , Rajiv Gandhi, PV Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh from 1982 till 2014. He also pointed to his uninterrupted four-decade membership of the Congress Working Committee. "I have spent every working moment of my adult life in the service of the Indian National Congress at the cost of my health and family," he said. - Ripping into Rahul: While praising Sona Gandhi's stewardship of the party, Azad was savage in his assessment of
Rahul Gandhi . He accused Rahul of demolishing the "consultative mechanism" in the party and "sidelining" all senior and experienced leaders and trusting a "new coterie of inexperienced sycophants" to run the party. He termed Rahul "childish" and "immature" and said by tearing up a government ordinance in front of the media, Rahul had subverted the authority of the PM and contributed to the UPA's defeat in 2014. He also called Rahul a "non-serious individual". - Remote control model: Azad said the "remote control" model, which had demolished the institutional integrity of the UPA government, now got applied to the Indian National Congress. "While you (Sonia) are just a nominal figurehead, all the important decisions were being taken by Rahul Gandhi or, rather worse, his security guards and PAs," he said.
- Feedback ignored: The J&K veteran said after Sonia took over as Congress president, the leadership had met for a brainstorming session in Panchmarhi in October 1998. There was another such session in Shimla in 2003 and in Jaipur in January 2013. He said none of the recommendations of these retreats were ever properly implemented.
- Unending poll losses: Azad said since 2014, the Congress had lost two
Lok Sabha elections in a "humiliating manner". "It has lost 39 out of the 49 assembly elections held between 2014 and 2022. The party only won four state elections and was able to get into a coalition situation in six instances. Unfortunately, today, the INC is ruling in only two states and is a very marginal coalition partner in two other states," he said. - Hounding the dissenters: Azad referred to the G-23 and said when they flagged the "abysmal drift" in the party, the "coterie chose to unleash its sycophants on us and got us attacked, vilified and humiliated in the most crude manner possible". "My mock funeral procession was taken out in Jammu. Those who committed this indiscipline were feted in Delhi by the general secretaries of the AICC and Rahul Gandhi personally," he said.
- Foisting 'proxies': Azad said the situation in the Congress had reached such a point of no return that "proxies" were being propped up to take over the party's leadership. "This experiment is doomed to fail because the party has been so comprehensively destroyed that the situation has become irretrievable. Moreover, the ‘chosen one’ would be nothing more than a puppet on a string," he said.
- Shrinking political space: Azad said the Congress had conceded the "political space available to us" at the national level to the BJP and state level space to regional parties. "This all happened because the leadership in the past eight years has tried to foist a non-serious individual at the helm of the party."
- Internal polls a 'sham': Calling the organisational election process "a farce and a sham", Azad said no polls were held at any level of the organisation anywhere in the country. "The AICC leadership is squarely responsible for perpetrating a giant fraud on the party to perpetuate its hold on the ruins of what once was a national movement that fought for and attained independence," he said.
- Coterie culture: Azad said the Congress had 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. "In fact, before starting Bharat Jodo Yatra, the leadership should have undertaken a Congress Jodo exercise across the country," he said.
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