After resignation from Congress, Ghulam Nabi Azad alleges that he was ‘forced’ to leave,praises Prime Minister Narendra Modi for ‘showing humanity’
o Azad said that Congress does not respect its leaders and “people don’t understand our contribution to the party”.Â
o He also praised the Prime Minister, saying he showed his humane side when he spoke in Parliament about the incident that happened with Gujarati tourists when he was Chief Minister.
Only days after his resignation from Congress party, Ghulam Nabi Azad alleged that he was ‘forced’ to leave the party and went on to praise Prime Minister Narendra Modi for ‘showing humanity’.
Speaking to the media on Monday, he said that Congress does not respect its leaders and that “people don’t understand our contribution to the party”. While praising the Prime Minister, he said that “Modi showed his humane side when he spoke in Parliament about the incident that happened with the Gujarati tourists when he was the Chief Minister.”
Ghulam Nabi Azad
Azad responded to the allegations levelled against him by the Congress leaders, who were saying that “Azad has been Modi-fied’ and will now join the BJP”. He said that “The party is full of illiterates, especially those working on clerical posts. Those who know Jammu & Kashmir know, I can’t increase one vote of BJP.”
He added that Rahul Gandhi was not interested in politics despite many efforts of the party. “It was Rahul who embraced the Prime Minister in Parliament not me,” Azad said, claiming that since the letter seeking reform in the Congress party was written in 2020, the party had a long-standing problem that no one wanted to question.
In his resignation letter, Azad said, “Unfortunately, the situation in Congress party has reached a point of no return that now ‘proxies’ are being propped to take over the leadership of the party. This experiment is doomed to fail as the party has been so comprehensively destroyed, the situation has become irretrievable. Moreover, the ‘chosen one’ would serve as nothing more than a puppet on a string.”
He said that at the national level, Congress has conceded the political space available to the Bharatiya Janata Party and state level space to regional parties. “All this happened because the leadership in the past eight years has attempted to foist a non-serious individual at the helm of the party,” he levelled accusations without taking the name of Rahul Gandhi.
Ghulam Nabi Azad said that he had assumed Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be a “crude man” but went on to opine that he had displayed humanity while recalling a terror-related incident during the farewell speech for Azad in Rajya Sabha.
After Azad quit the Congress party, the party members alleged that he was now supporting Modi and several leaders attacked him citing Modi’s speech in Rajya Sabha in February last year in which the teary-eyed prime minister praised Azad as a “true friend”.
Modi recalled the 2007 terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir on a public bus carrying people from Gujarat when he was the chief minister and his interaction with Azad, who was then the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir. According to him: “I assumed Modi Sahab to be a crude man as he did not have his own children or a family… and would not care but he has shown humanity,” he said, narrating the aftermath of the grenade explosion inside the Gujarat tourist bus.
He said that “When the chief minister of Gujarat called me, I was crying loudly. He heard me crying and he told me that I cannot talk right now and have to tend to the injured.”
