‘Congress has lost will and ability’: Senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad quits party after 50 yrs

Azad's exit comes after polls to elect Congress president were deferred; weeks ago he resigned as chairman of Jammu and Kashmir campaign committee.

Ghulam Nabi Azad | Photo: Suraj SIngh Bisht | ThePrint

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday resigned from all party positions, including its primary membership, delivering another blow to the embattled party that has seen a series of leaders leave it.

In a five page letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, he said he does so with a “heavy heart”.

"It is therefore with great regret and an extremely leaden heart that I have decided to sever my half a century old assocation with Indian National Congress," read Ghulam Nabi Azad's resignation letter to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi pic.twitter.com/X49Epvo1TP

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The Congress, he said, has lost both the will and the ability under tutelage of the coterie that runs the AICC to fight for what is right for India, Azad, part of the G-23 group seeking change in party, said.

Before starting a ‘Bharat jodo yatra’, the leadership should have undertaken a ‘Congress jodo yatra’, the veteran leader said in his letter.

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