According to Sources, Mr.Gulab Nabi Azad saw the appointment as a demotion as he is already a member of the party’s all-India political affairs committee.
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and G23 member Ghulam Nabi Azad –– long upset with the party — has resigned from a key party post in Jammu and Kashmir, signaling a revolt within. Made the chairman of the party’s campaign committee, he stepped down from the post shortly after his appointment. He has also resigned from the party’s Jammu and Kashmir political affairs committee.
According to Sources, Mr.Gulab Nabi Azad saw the appointment as a demotion as he is already a member of the party’s all-India political affairs committee.
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The former J&K Chief Minister of the erstwhile state also served as a union minister and held many important party posts. He was also one of the group of 23 leaders who wrote an explosive letter to party President Sonia Gandhi two years ago, seeking organizational changes.
The stepping down of Mr. Azad came shortly after his close aide, Ghulam Ahmed Mir, was dropped from the post of the chief of the party’s Jammu and Kashmir unit. Mr. Mir resigned last month.
The party had effected a thorough organizational shake-up in the Union Territory and appointed Vikar Rasool Wani in place of Mr. Mir.
According to a report by Press Trust Of India, Party chief Sonia Gandhi had also formed the campaign committee, political affairs committee, coordination committee, manifesto committee, publicity, and publication committee, disciplinary committee, and Pradesh election committee with immediate effect.
The assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir will take place after the finalization of electoral rolls and completion of the delimitation exercise. There is, however, concern that the polls cannot be held this year as delimitation and electoral rolls revision cannot be completed before the deep winter sets in.
The schedule for the polls is yet to be announced. The Election Commission of India, however, has recently revised the date of final publication of the voters’ list to November 25. This would be the first voters’ list of the Union Territory after the boundaries of assembly seats were redrawn in the delimitation exercise.
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