Will 'Azad' Ghulam Nabi be BJP CM face in J&K assembly Polls?

After having patience for more than two years, senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad ultimately resigned from all posts of Comgress, including from the primary membership. In a letter addressed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Azad cited the sidelining of senior leaders and the increasing sway of a "coterie of inexperienced sycophants" as the reasons behind his exit from the party. The former Rajya Sabha MP also lashed out at Rahul Gandhi, blaming his "immaturity" for the Congress's dwindling political clout and poor performance in elections. “One of the most glaring examples of this immaturity was the tearing up of a government ordinance in the full glare of the media by Rahul Gandhi... This ‘childish’ behaviour completely subverted the authority of the Prime Minister and government of India. This one single action more than anything else contributed significantly to the defeat of the UPA government in 2014,” wrote Azad in the letter.

Blamed Rahul Gandhi for Cong poor show

Azad  blamed Rahul for the Congress's defeat in the 2014 national election - a turning point for the party that has been struggling to win elections since. The Congress has reached a "point of no return", he declared, and slammed a "remote control model" in which Sonia Gandhi is "just a nominal figurehead" while important decisions were taken by "Rahul Gandhi or rather worse his security guards and PAs (personal assistants)" He  said the Congress had conceded its political space to the BJP and regional parties "because the leadership in the past eight years has tried to foist a non-serious individual" at the helm of the party.

"Unfortunately, after the entry of Rahul Gandhi into politics and particularly after January 2013, when he was appointed Vice President by you, the entire consultative mechanism which existed earlier was demolished by him," Azad wrote. Under your stewardship since 2014 and subsequently that of Rahul Gandhi, the Congress has lost two Lok Sabha elections in a humiliating manner. It has lost 39 out of the 49 assembly elections held between 2014 - 2022. The party only won four state elections and was able to get into a coalition situation in six instances. Unfortunately, today, the Congress is ruling in only two states and is a very marginal coalition partner in two other states. Azad was a leading member of the G-23 or the group of 23 "dissenters" who wrote to Sonia Gandhi in 2020 calling for a complete overhaul of the organization and a full-time, collective and visible leadership. BJP has honoured him with the Padma award . 

Cong has reached a point of no return

Azad said the Congress has reached a "point of no return" as "proxies" were being propped up to take over the leadership. The "chosen one" would be nothing more than a puppet on a string, he felt. Azad said the situation has only worsened since the 2019 elections after Rahul Gandhi stepped down in a huff and not before insulting all the senior party functionaries who have given their lives to the party. The remote control model that destroyed the UPA got applied to Congress, Azad wrote.Now observers have started predicting about the future step on Azad. They did not rule out the poosibility  of Ghulam Nabi Azad could be the BJP CM face in the forthcoming J&K assembly electios which are likely to be held in Nonember this year or in next summer .