Ghulam Nabi Azad quits Congress over Rahul Gandhi's 'immaturity'

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 itIn a fivepage no holds barred letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi that comes ahead of crucial organisational elections in the party Azad said he does so with a heavy heartAll senior and experienced leaders were sidelined and new coterie of inexperienced sycophants started running the affairs of the Party 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 behaviour completely subverted the authority of the Prime Minister and Government of India This one single action more than anything else contributed significantly to the defeat of the UPA Government in 2014 that was at the receiving end of a campaign of calumny and insinuation from a combination of the forces of the rightwing and certain unscrupulous corporate interests the Azad wroteEarlier on Wednesday lawyerturnedpolitician Jaiveer Shergill resigned as Congress spokesperson stating that the decisionmaking of the grandold party is not in consonance with the ground reality and public interest rather it is influenced by sycophancyThe 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 who is part of the G23 group seeking change in party saidAlso Read Snooping threatening stealing foundations of Amritkaal promised by PM Rahul GandhiBefore starting a Bharat jodo yatra the leadership should have undertaken a Congress jodo yatra the veteran leader said in his letterThe 23 leaders who wrote to point out weaknesses in the party were abused insulted humiliated vilified Azad saidAt no place have elections been held at any level of organisation he added while announcing his resignation from the CongressThe situation in the Congress he said has reached a point of no return and now proxies are being propped to take over leadership of the party he saidHolding the leadership squarely responsible for perpetrating giant fraud on the party Azad said handpicked lieutenants of the AICC were coerced to sign on lists prepared by coterie that runs the organisationWith inputs from PTI