New Delhi:
Senior Congress chief Ghulam Nabi Azad — lengthy upset with the get together — has resigned from a key get together publish in Jammu and Kashmir, signalling a revolt inside. Made the chairman of the get together’s marketing campaign committee, he stepped down from the publish shortly after his appointment. He has additionally resigned from the get together’s Jammu and Kashmir political affairs committee.
Sources indicated that Mr Azad noticed the appointment as a demotion as he’s already a member of the get together’s all-India political affairs committee. A veteran chief, he’s additionally a former Chief Minister of the erstwhile state, served as an union minister and held many essential get together posts.He was additionally one of many group of 23 leaders who wrote an explosive letter to get together chief Sonia Gandhi two years in the past, searching for organisational modifications
The resignation of Mr Azad got here shortly after his shut aide, Ghulam Ahmed Mir, was dropped from the publish of the chief of the get together’s Jammu and Kashmir unit. Mr Mir had stepped down final month.
The get together had effected a radical organisational shake-up within the Union Territory and appointed Vikar Rasool Wani instead of Mr Mir.
Sonia Gandhi had additionally fashioned the marketing campaign committee, political affairs committee, coordination committee, manifesto committee, publicity and publication committee, disciplinary committee and Pradesh election committee with rapid impact, reported information company Press Belief of India.
The meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir can be held after the finalisation of electoral rolls and completion of the delimitation train. There’s, nonetheless, concern that the polls can’t be held this yr as delimitation and electoral rolls revision can’t be accomplished earlier than the deep winter units in.
A timeline for the election is but to be introduced.
The Election Fee, nonetheless, has just lately revised the date of ultimate publication of voters checklist to November 25. This could be the primary voters’ checklist of the Union Territory after the boundaries of meeting seats have been redrawn within the delimitation train.
