Halfway into our delegation's tour, Shri Ghulam Azad has had to be admitted to hospital, Panda said on X
Having failed to take off after its promising debut two years, leaders of Ghulam Nabi Azad's DPAP now stare at an uncertain future.
The party has now chosen Muhammad Saleem Parray for the position
Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function in Nagrota, Azad, who resigned from Congress after decades of association, also appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resolve the issues of agitating farmers "once for all" as the protest is neither good for the government nor the farmers.
"Ghulam Nabi Azad has made a serious allegation that whenever Rahul Gandhi goes on a foreign tour, he meets many 'unwanted businessmen'," Prasad told reporters in Patna.
Ashok Gehlot said the BJP leaders are tired because Gandhi has not shied away from raising the voice of the people despite so many attacks.
Azad touches upon aspects such as the one man, one post issue, Himanta Biswa Sarma’s exit and the party’s democracy.
Ghulam Nabi Azad, a former Congress loyalist who quit the party in August 2022 and launched his own regional party, also targets Sonia Gandhi and says she did not assert herself as party president "despite understanding the disastrous consequences that lay ahead".
Ghulam Nabi Azad’s Democratic Azad Party flounders as former deputy CM Tara Chand, four-time minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed and former legislator Thakur Balwan Singh return to the Congress
With the factionalism within the DAP on public display, Azad's leadership is shown up in a poor light. He has also failed to articulate a compelling political narrative.
He said holding of the elections was important to take J-K out of economic and political crisis.
Ghulam Nabi Azad announced the formation of three teams each for Jammu and Kashmir divisions to cover all the 20 districts.
The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister had ended his more than five-decade-long association with the Congress on August 26.
Veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, 73, quit Congress on August 26, terming the party "comprehensively destroyed".
Members of the Hindu and Sikh communities who migrated from Sialkot in Pakistan’s West Punjab after the Partition of 1947 will soon be able to vote in local elections for the first time.
At his maiden rally in Kashmir after quitting the Congress last month, Azad had on Sunday slammed those promising the restoration of Article 370, saying it was not in their hands and that he would not mislead people over the issue.
The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said the agenda of the new political outfit would be to struggle for the restoration of J and K's statehood and to fight for the job and land rights of people.
Addressing the rally at Sainik Colony on the outskirts of Jammu, the veteran leader said he would announce the name of his new party after consulting people and leaders of Jammu and Kashmir.
With the timing of Ghulam Nabi Azad's launch event in Jammu and Kashmir coinciding with Rahul Gandhi's rally, it will be seen if there are more fireworks on the day the former Congress chief addresses the mega event at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan.
Days after the leader from Jammu and Kashmir resigned from the party after criticising the leadership, senior Congress leaders and G-23 members Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Anand Sharma, and Prithviraj Chavan met Ghulam Nabi Azad at his home on Tuesday.
They submitted a joint resignation letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Launching a fresh attack on the Congress three days after he quit the party, Azad said the party needs medicines for treating it which are being provided by compounders instead of doctors. He also accused the Congress leadership of not having time for setting the organisation right.
Speaking to reporters at his residence, Azad who quit the party on Friday last, alleged that the leaders being projected in the party in states are making party members leave instead of uniting them.
Azad would meet the same fate as ex-Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh, said the former president of the Congress’ Jammu and Kashmir unit at a press conference here. He was flanked by Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee president Viqar Rasool and other party leaders.
The Congress, dealing with the fallout of a series of high-profile exits, including that of Kapil Sibal and Ashwani Kumar, has attempted to deflect the latest blow by alleging that Azad's DNA had been "Modi-fied" and linking his resignation to the end of his Rajya Sabha tenure.