New Delhi: Veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday resigned from all party posts, including the primary membership of the Congress. He sent a five-page note to the party’s interim president Sonia Gandhi, where he recalled his long association with the party and his close association with Indira Gandhi. Ghulam Nabi Azad wrote in his detailed resignation letter, the condition of the Congress party has reached the point of ‘no return’. Along with this, he held Rahul Gandhi responsible for the downfall of the party. Said that senior leaders were ignored and blamed Rahul Gandhi for leaving the party.
Rahul destroyed the entire advisory system of Congress…
Ghulam Nabi Azad, who has been angry with the party for a long time, said in a letter to Sonia Gandhi that undoubtedly as the President of the Indian National Congress, you played an important role in the formation of UPA-I and UPA-II government. One of the major reasons for this success was that as the party president, you relied on the decisions of senior leaders and delegated powers to them, apart from heeding their wise advice. He further said in the letter that however unfortunately after Rahul Gandhi’s entry into politics and especially after January 2013 when he was appointed as the Vice President by you, the entire advisory system that existed earlier by him has been demolished. given. All senior and experienced leaders were sidelined and a new circle of inexperienced sycophants ran the affairs of the party.
Tearing of Rahul’s ordinance was the main reason for the defeat in 2014
He further writes in the letter that the most vivid example of this immaturity was the tearing down of a government ordinance by Rahul Gandhi under the glare of the media. The said ordinance was included in the Congress Core Group and later unanimously approved by the Union Cabinet headed by the Prime Minister of India and also duly approved by the President of India. This ‘childish’ behavior completely reversed the authority of the Prime Minister and the Government of India. This single action contributed significantly to the defeat of the UPA government in 2014.
The party under the leadership of Rahul lost badly in the elections.
Expressing his pain in the letter, he further said to Sonia Gandhi, since 2014 under your leadership and later under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi, the Congress has lost two Lok Sabha elections in a humiliating manner. The party has lost 39 out of 49 assembly elections held between 2014-2022. The party won only four state elections and was able to come to an alliance position in six cases. Unfortunately, today the Congress is ruling only two states and has very minor alliance partners in two other states.
Rahul’s security guard and PA are taking important decisions
He says the party’s situation has worsened after the 2019 elections. You took over as interim president, after Rahul Gandhi stepped down in ‘apprehension’ before insulting all senior party functionaries at the Extended Working Committee meeting. Such a situation, which you have continued, continues even today for the last three years. Worse yet, the ‘remote control model’ which had demolished the institutional integrity of the UPA government has now been implemented in the Indian National Congress. All the important decisions were being taken by Rahul Gandhi or rather by his security guards and PAs.
