Srinagar: Just two days after Jaiveer Shergil's resignation, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday resigned from all party positions including primary membership of the party. This came days after Azad resigned from the post of chairman of the campaign committee and from the political affairs committee of Jammu and Kashmir Congress hours after his appointment.
In a letter to Congress party interim president Sonia Gandhi, Azad wrote, “Congress has lost will and ability under the tutelage of coterie that runs All India Congress Committee (AICC)".
The leader called Sonia Gandhi a "nominal figurehead" and added that Rahul Gandhi and his security guards and PA's were involved in taking significant decisions.
" Unfortunately, after the entry of Rahul Gandhi into politics in 2013, the entire consultative mechanism which existed earlier was demolished by him," said Azad.
"23 leaders who wrote to point out weaknesses were abused, insulted, humiliated, vilified," he added.
Azad is a prominent member of Congress' G23 group which has been critical of the leadership and has been seeking an organisational overhaul. Azad, retired from the Rajya Sabha and was the outgoing leader of opposition, was not renominated to the upper house.
Azad was the Union Helath Minister during UPA-2 era. In June 2014, after the National Democratic Alliance won a majority in the Lok Sabha and formed the Union government, Azad was appointed as the leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha.