Guwahati: The first branch of Ghulam Nabi Azad’s new party will be established in Jammu and Kashmir within a month, according to his close friend G M Saroori, who announced his resignation from the Congress on Friday (August 26).
According to a Zee News article on Saroori, the party’s platform will include restoring Jammu and Kashmir to its pre-August 5, 2019 position.
In favour of Azad, several notable Jammu and Kashmiri Congress politicians resigned from the party’s basic membership, including former minister Saroori. Saroori claimed that Azad was an intellectual secularist and that there was no chance that he would serve the BJP’s interests.
In moreover, he asserted that hundreds of top Congress figures, members of the Panchayati Raj Institution, and well-known employees had submitted their resignations following the former chief minister’s break with the national party after more than five decades of service.
According to Saroori, a former vice-president of the J-K branch of the Congress, “Azad is going to Jammu on September 4 to undertake talks with his well-wishers before the establishment of our new party,” Saroori told PTI.
Friday, shortly after announcing his resignation, Azad declared he would soon start a new political party, with its first branch to be established in Jammu and Kashmir.
Azad, who is from the Bhaderwah township in the Doda district, had told PTI on Friday night: “I am not in a hurry as of now to start a national party but keeping in mind that elections are expected to be held in Jammu and Kashmir, I have decided to launch a unit there shortly.”
Saroori, who met with Azad in New Delhi on Friday to offer their support, stated that the seasoned politician would announce the creation of the party within the following two weeks.
“We welcome his return to J-K, where he previously served as chief minister (from November 2, 2005 to July 11, 2008). People want him back because they think his rule was a “golden age” and they want Jammu and Kashmir removed from the current predicament “He remarked, adding that Jammu and Kashmir is home to the majority of his supporters.