Senior Congress leader Manish Tewari reacted to Ghulam Nabi Azad’s exit from the party and said a crack seems to have appeared in coordination between India and Congress that existed since 1885.
“Two years back, 23 of us wrote to Sonia Gandhi that the party’s situation is worrying and should be taken seriously. Congress lost all Assembly polls after that letter. If Congress and India thought alike, it seems either of them has started thinking differently,” Tewari said.
“A crack seems to have appeared in the coordination between India and Congress that had existed since 1885. A self-introspection was needed. I feel that had the consensus of the meeting at Sonia Gandhi’s residence on December 20, 2020 been executed, this situation wouldn’t have arrived,” he added.
On Friday, Ghulam Nabi Azad, a veteran leader and former Union minister, had resigned from the Congress.
The development came more than a week after Azad had declined to be the party’s campaign committee head and a member of the political affairs panel of the Jammu and Kashmir unit.
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In his resignation letter to party chief Sonia Gandhi on Friday, Azad wrote that the Congress has lost the will and ability to fight for what is right for the country. This, he said, was because the party was running under the instructions of a small group of All India Congress Committee leaders.
“In fact, before starting a Bharat Jodo Yatra [join India exercise], the leadership should have taken a Congress jodo exercise across the country,” he wrote, adding that he was resigning from all posts and the primary membership of the party.
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