The Congress, according to a report in Kashmir Times, has already sounded Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK to spare a seat for Azad in the by-elections for three seats from the state
Former Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad is likely to be back in the Rajya Sabha, according to news reports.
The Congress, according to a report in Kashmir Times, has already sounded Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK to spare a seat for Azad in the by-elections for three seats from the state. The vacancies were created due to the death of AIADMK MP Mohammedjan in March and due to the resignation of K P Munusamy and R Vaithiyalingam as MPs after both were elected as MLAs in the recent assembly elections.
The DMK- Congress alliance registered a thumping victory in Tamil Nadu Assembly polls held in April. The Congress, the junior partner in the alliance, won 18 of the 25 seats it contested.
Azad, former Union Minister, was last elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2015 from Jammu and Kahsmir. But he cannot be elected from the Union Territory as no assembly elections have been held in Jammu and Kashmir recently.
On February 9, Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke into tears in Rajya Sabha during his farewell speech to members including Azad.
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A prominent member of Congress’ group of 23 dissenters (G-23), Ghulam Nabi Azad was in May appointed as head of the 13-member Congress party task force to coordinate COVID-19 relief, a move seen as an attempt to reach out to the dissenting leader by the party’s interim president Sonia Gandhi.
Sources said that Congress veteran Ambika Soni, who has taken over the role of late Ahmed Patel as a political advisor to Sonia Gandhi, is behind sending Ghulam Nabi Azad to Rajya Sabha again.
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