Veteran leader Ghulam Nabi Azad's resignation from the Congress, ending 50 years of his association with it, created a political storm in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday. Following this, former minister R S Chib and four other party leaders also quit, and more are likely to go. The latest developments have left the grand old party in a fix in the union territory.
Ghulam Nabi Azad quit the party calling out Rahul Gandhi for "immaturity" and for "demolishing the consultative mechanism" in the party.
In Ghulam Nabi Azad’s five-page resignation note to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, there are six references attacking the “coterie” that runs the Congress party.
Terming Sonia Gandhi a “nominal figurehead” in one instance, he goes on to add that “all the important decisions were being taken by Shri Rahul Gandhi, or rather worse, his security guards and PAs”.
“Congress has lost the will and the ability under the tutelage of the Coterie that runs the AICC to fight for what is right for India,” Azad wrote.