In the summertime or 1977, when Ghulam Nabi Azad first got here to Delhi after being appointed as normal secretary of the Youth Congress by Sanjay Gandhi, he couldn’t face up to the torrid summer season. Hs nostril bled for a number of weeks, and he informed his colleagues that he’s going again. Forty-five years later he severed his affiliation with the celebration which is bleeding due to repeated electoral defeats and fixed exodus of leaders.
Azad is alikely insurgent. His choice to go away the celebration after launching one of many sharpest ever assaults on Gandhi household was a lot as a shock as his choice to guide a band of leaders to jot down to Sonia Gandhi calling for adjustments in celebration organisation in 2020. The truth is, he was a kind of leaders who’ve all the time been as having sided with the institution and with out break held key posts each within the group and governments.
Regardless of his closeness to the management and maybe due to it, he spoke his thoughts too, at instances. And the management invariably listened, which is maybe lacking now. And that’s his honest single grouse.
As an example, when Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi renamed the training ministry as Human Assets Improvement Ministry and requested P V Narasimha Rao to move it in September 1985, Azad went to Gandhi and informed him that asking a veteran like Rao to move the ministry, nobody can relate to, is a demotion.
However such interventions are uncommon as Azad all the time sided with energy centre within the celebration. From being the blue eyed boy of Sanjay Gandhi to a confidante of Sonia Gandhi until a while in the past, he has by no means rubbed the chief the fallacious manner earlier than 2020. He has been a minister in Congress authorities since Eighties (those headed by Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi P V Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh), when he entered Lok Sabha from Mahim in Maharashtra.
He has been within the Congress working Committee for 37 years and he had been AICC in-charge of virtually each state, a feat that has no parallel within the celebration. He started his political profession in mid Nineteen Seventies and have become the president of the J&Ok youth Congress in 1975-76. He moved to Delhi in 1977 and have become one of many shut associates of Sanjay Gandhi with associates the likes of Kamal Nath and Ambika Soni. He grew to become Nationwide President of the Youth Congress in 1980.
He was a member of the Congress Parliamentary Board headed by Rajiv Gandhi as Congress President and later Narasimha Rao. He had stints as state Congress President of Jammu and Kashmir within the early 2000s, Chief Minister of J&Ok from 2005 to 2008 and the Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha from 2014 to 2021 in latest historical past.
His choice to guide a gaggle of leaders looking for change within the celebration—a euphemism for opposition to Rahul Gandhi —was stunning as he has been fiercely loyal to the Gandhi’s. He sided with Rao when Prime Minister took on the likes of Arjun Singh. He was near Sitaram Kesri as properly when the veteran was President of the celebration however sided with Sonia Gandhi when she determined to take the political plunge. Sitaram Kesri was booted out. Beneath Sonia Gandhi, Azad grew to become extra highly effective. (IPA Service)
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