Senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad quits Congress
1 min readNew Delhi: In a shocking political development senior leader and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has quit Congress party.
Azad in his letter to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi has resigned from all the posts and membership.
This serves as yet another major blow to the grand old party after several other senior leaders called it quits in the recent years.
The 73-year-old Azad has taken a swipe at Congress former president Rahul Gandhi, in his letter to Sonia Gandhi.
Azad who served the party for close to 50 years, ever since he started as block level president of the party in 1973, was the seventh CM of Jammu and Kashmir from 2005 to 2008.
He recently served as the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, before his six year tenure in the upper house of the parliament came to an end. He had also served as the union minister of parliamentary affairs in the cabinet of prime minister Manmohan Singh.
The central government recently honoured him with Padmabhushan.
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