By PTI
CHANDIGARH: Former Haryana chief minister and senior Congress chief Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Thursday stated Ghulam Nabi Azad’s resignation from all social gathering positions, together with its major membership, was “unfortunate”.
He additionally stated when a senior chief takes such a step, it does make an impression on the social gathering organisation.
“It is unfortunate, that is what I can say,” Hooda informed PTI when requested about Azad’s determination.
“He (Azad) has been a Congressman throughout,” he added.
Azad and Hooda are outstanding leaders of the “Group of 23” (G-23) that has been important of the Congress management’s choices.
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The grouping, comprising many different outstanding veterans together with Anand Sharma and Manish Tewari, has been insisting on real elections proper from the block degree as much as the Congress Working Committee (CWC) degree.
Hooda, who’s the chief of the opposition in Haryana, stated it was as much as the social gathering high-command to determine on the longer term plan of action within the wake of latest developments.
“I had recently said that the party high-command should reach out to Azad and Sharma to address their grievances and concerns,” he stated.
Only just a few days in the past, with months to go for the Himachal Pradesh polls, Anand Sharma resigned from the chairmanship of the social gathering’s steering committee for the hill state, saying he was left with no selection after the “continuing exclusion and insults”.
Azad on Friday resigned from all social gathering positions, together with its major membership, forward of the organisational polls and accused the Congress management of committing “fraud” on the social gathering within the identify of “sham” inside elections.
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The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister had additionally stepped down because the chairman of the social gathering’s marketing campaign committee within the Union Territory just a few days in the past.
Delivering one other blow to the embattled social gathering that has seen a sequence of high-profile exits, together with that of Kapil Sibal and Ashwani Kumar, within the latest previous, Azad wrote a five-page no-holds-barred letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, detailing his grievances.
He described the social gathering as “comprehensively destroyed” and stated the Congress has conceded the political area out there to it to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the nationwide degree and to regional political events on the state degree.
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CHANDIGARH: Former Haryana chief minister and senior Congress chief Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Thursday stated Ghulam Nabi Azad’s resignation from all social gathering positions, together with its major membership, was “unfortunate”.
He additionally stated when a senior chief takes such a step, it does make an impression on the social gathering organisation.
“It is unfortunate, that is what I can say,” Hooda informed PTI when requested about Azad’s determination.
“He (Azad) has been a Congressman throughout,” he added.
Azad and Hooda are outstanding leaders of the “Group of 23” (G-23) that has been important of the Congress management’s choices.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES | Disgruntled with Gandhis? Ghulam Nabi Azad readies to do an Amarinder in J&Okay forward of polls
The grouping, comprising many different outstanding veterans together with Anand Sharma and Manish Tewari, has been insisting on real elections proper from the block degree as much as the Congress Working Committee (CWC) degree.
Hooda, who’s the chief of the opposition in Haryana, stated it was as much as the social gathering high-command to determine on the longer term plan of action within the wake of latest developments.
“I had recently said that the party high-command should reach out to Azad and Sharma to address their grievances and concerns,” he stated.
Only just a few days in the past, with months to go for the Himachal Pradesh polls, Anand Sharma resigned from the chairmanship of the social gathering’s steering committee for the hill state, saying he was left with no selection after the “continuing exclusion and insults”.
Azad on Friday resigned from all social gathering positions, together with its major membership, forward of the organisational polls and accused the Congress management of committing “fraud” on the social gathering within the identify of “sham” inside elections.
READ HERE | GNA’s DNA has been ‘Modi-fied’: Congress’ Jairam Ramesh on Ghulam Nabi Azad
The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister had additionally stepped down because the chairman of the social gathering’s marketing campaign committee within the Union Territory just a few days in the past.
Delivering one other blow to the embattled social gathering that has seen a sequence of high-profile exits, together with that of Kapil Sibal and Ashwani Kumar, within the latest previous, Azad wrote a five-page no-holds-barred letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, detailing his grievances.
He described the social gathering as “comprehensively destroyed” and stated the Congress has conceded the political area out there to it to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the nationwide degree and to regional political events on the state degree.
ALSO READ | Key factors from Ghulam Nabi Azad’s letter of resignation from Congress
