SRINAGAR — Former MLA and prominent leader of Apni Party Shoiab Nabi Lone on Monday threw his weight behind former CM Ghulam Nabi Azad. In a letter, a copy of which is in possession of news agency Kashmir News Observer, Shoiab said that he alongwith his delegates and colleagues extends his full support to Ghulam […]
JAMMU — Four more Congress leaders, including former deputy speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Gulam Hyder Malik, and a dozen prominent workers of the Apni Party resigned from their respective parties on Monday in support of veteran politician Ghulam Nabi Azad. Azad (73), a former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, ended his five-decade […]
NEW DELHI — Ghulam Nabi Azad, who quit the Congress last week, today said the party’s top decision-making body, the Congress Working Committee, is “meaningless” today. He also slammed what he called “Rahul Gandhi’s policy of attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi left, right and centre.” “The present CWC is meaningless. Under Sonia Gandhi, there was […]
SRINAGAR — A day after Apni Party chief lashed out at former CM Ghulam Nabi Azad, the newly appointed Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) chief, Vikar Rasool Wani on Monday said that “A” and “B” teams of BJP have started pulling legs of each other. “Anyone who wants to leave Congress can go […]
JAMMU — Scores of leaders and activists, who resigned from the Congress following in Ghulam Nabi Azad’s footsteps, met under the leadership of former Jammu and Kashmir minister G M Saroori here on Sunday. Azad, a Congress veteran who resigned from the party on August 26, is scheduled to reach Jammu on September 4. He […]
SRINAGAR — Former minister and senior Congress leader, Taj Mohi-ud-din, who resigned from the party on Sunday in support of Ghulam Nabi Azad stated that they have nothing to do with the BJP and if need be they will go with the National Conference or Peoples Democratic Party. Addressing a press conference at his Gupkar […]
SRINAGAR — Apni Party president Syed Altaf Bukhari on Sunday launched a blistering attack on former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, saying that he has struck a deal with the Bharatiya Janta Party and was responsible for abrogation of Article 370 Addressing a public gathering in south Kashmir’s Bijbhera area, as per news agency Kashmir […]
SRINAGAR — Congress Working Committee (CWC) member and former Member of Parliament, Tariq Hameed Karra on Saturday repulsed back to Ghulam Nabi Azad for targeting All India Congress Committee (AICC) Vice president, Rahul Gandhi, saying that it was he who made the proposal and passed it for Rahul’s presidential post. Karra also said that the […]
SRINAGAR — Senior Congress leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad’s resignation from primary membership of the Congress after serving the party for 52 years has added an important third dimension to the forthcoming assembly elections in J&K. While the election commission has already set the electoral ball rolling in the Union Territory by revision of electoral rolls […]
JAMMU — Hours after former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad quit the Congress, eight senior party leaders including three former ministers resigned the party’s primary membership, with sources indicating they may form a new party soon. More leaders, perceived to be close to Azad, are contemplating to resign, the sources said. Former […]