In his first exclusive interview after he quit the Congress, Ghulam Nabi Azad hit out at the party and Rahul Gandhi. Reiterating every point from his five-page letter, he said the Congress under Gandhi has been filled with sycophants and has failed to win even one election.
Azad will soon travel through Jammu and Kashmir, as he floats his party which, he says, will soon grow into a national one as he thinks more leaders from the Congress could leave. However, Azad made it clear that he ?won’t join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ever?.
Azad’s comments come at a time when the Congress has finalised its schedule for the polls for the post of party president on October 17 and has planned an ambitious Bharat Jodo Yatra to hit the streets to regain lost ground.
The party wants to counter the growing power of regional parties such as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) that are eating into the Congress votes.
Edited excerpts:
You have written a five-page resignation letter? Why did you, at this time?
Let me tell you, I took three days to write it and I couldn’t sleep for all this time. And even after I wrote the letter, I couldn’t sleep. I kept cutting some excerpts as I did not want to sound harsh. But what I have written is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s just 5% of what I feel. But I couldn’t avoid writing it.
Ghulam Nabi Azad: It hurts when our advice is not heeded. Cong history tells you there would be elections every one year for President's post, later it was extended to 2 & 5 years, and now there is no time given@islahmufti and @_pallavighosh decode the tussle within Congress. pic.twitter.com/K87m9Hz1Hc? News18 (@CNNnews18) December 5, 2021
I have been telling them, sending letters, but got no response. How long can I tolerate the humiliation I have been receiving from them?
But what I have written is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s just 5% of what I feel.
Your problem is with the Congress or with the Congress of today or Rahul Gandhi’s Congress?
It’s now a party of sycophants. It is about jee hazuri and a group close to Rahul Gandhi. And he keeps stressing the need for young people. What is this about old people not being useful? How old was Mahatma Gandhi when he ousted the British? What about Indira Gandhi when she defeated the Janta Party? You can’t have a party of only 30- or 40-year-olds. And Rahul Gandhi’s style has not won any elections. Since January 2013, Rahul Gandhi has been calling the shots and taking all decisions. But we have been travelling and hitting the ground. We travelled in buses and trucks and even got hurt. You can’t run a party on Twitter by being away. The Congress is doing a Bharat Jodo Yatra, but it needs a Congress Jodo Yatra more. This Bharat Jodo Yatra won’t achieve anything.
How old was Mahatma Gandhi when he ousted the British? What about Indira Gandhi when she defeated the Janta Party? The Congress is doing a Bharat Jodo Yatra, but it needs a Congress Jodo Yatra more.
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