After Ghulam Nabi Azad, two others resign from key posts in J&K Congress

India

oi-Prakash KL

New
Delhi,
Aug
17:
After
senior
Congress
leader
Ghulam
Nabi
Azad
resigned
from
a
key
party
post
in
Jammu
and
Kashmir
Congress,
two
more
Congress
leaders,
MLA
Gulzar
Ahmed
Wani
and
former
MLA
Haji
Abdul
Rashid
Dar
have
kept
themselves
out
of
the
newly
formed
committees.

Congress
on
Tuesday
constituted
the
campaign
committee,
political
affairs
committee,
coordination
committee,
manifesto
committee,
publicity
and
publication
committee,
disciplinary
committee
and
Pradesh
election
committee
for
Jammu
and
Kashmir.

The
campaign
committee
was
formed
constituting
11
members
with
Azad
as
the
chairman
and
Tariq
Hamid
Karra
as
vice
chairman.
Further,
the
committee
includes
the
PCC
president
and
working
president
as
permanent
invitees
while
G
M
Saroori
has
been
made
the
convenor.
However,
the
reshuffle
in
the
party’s
Jammu
and
Kashmir
unit
is
believed
to
have
angered
many
leaders.

As
a
result,
MLA
Gulzar
Ahmed
Wani
and
former
MLA
Haji
Abdul
Rashid
Dar
have
resigned
from
newly
formed
committees.

In
fact,
Dar
has
bid
goodbye
to
the
party.

“We’re
unhappy
as
senior
leaders
weren’t
consulted
before
taking
decision
on
J&K
PCC
chief.
We’ve
resigned
from
party’s
coordination
committee
as
protest
against
recent
announcements
of
PCC
chief.
I’ve
resigned
from
Congress’ primary
membership,”
Dar
told
News18.

“I
have
resigned
from
Congress
coordination
committee
in
J&K
as
a
protest
against
recent
appointment
of
PCC
chief
in
UT.
The
decision
isn’t
in
favour
of
the
party,”
said
Gulzar
Ahmad
Wani
to
News18.

Earlier
on
Tuesday,
senior
Congress
leader
Ghulam
Nabi
Azad
on
Tuesday
resigned
from
the
post
of
chairman
of
the
Jammu
and
Kashmir
Congress
campaign
committee
hours
after
his
appointment.

Azad
has
reportedly
refused
to
assume
the
post
of
Campaign
Committee
chairman
of
Jammu
and
Kashmir
due
to
health
reasons.
He
has
conveyed
this
to
the
Congress
leadership
and
has
also
thanked
the
leadership
for
giving
him
the
responsibility.
The
development
came
after
Congress
chief
Sonia
Gandhi
on
Tuesday
appointed
Vikar
Rasool
Wani
as
the
party’s
J-K
unit
president
and
Raman
Bhalla
as
working
president.