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Five senior leaders of Jammu and Kashmir resigned from the basic membership of the party after Ghulam Nabi Azad was out of the Congress. (Image: PTI/FILE)
GM Saroori insisted that restoration of the status of Jammu and Kashmir before August 5, 2019 would be part of the party’s manifesto.
His close aide GM Saroori on Saturday said former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad is all set to launch his party and its first unit will come to Jammu and Kashmir within a fortnight. Saroori insisted that the restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s status before August 5, 2019 would be part of the party’s manifesto.
A former minister, who was among several prominent Congress leaders from Jammu and Kashmir who resigned from the party’s original membership in support of Azad, Saroori said that their leaders were ideologically secular and they were working at the behest of the BJP. There was no question. He also claimed that hundreds of senior Congress leaders, Panchayati Raj Institution members and prominent workers have tendered their resignations after the former chief minister ended his more than five-decade-long association with the national party.
Saroori, former vice-president of Congress’s Jammu and Kashmir unit, said, “Azad is coming to Jammu on September 4 to discuss with his well-wishers before launching our new party. Hours after his resignation on Friday, Azad said he would soon start a new party and its first unit would be set up in Jammu and Kashmir.
Azad, who hails from Bhaderwah town, said, “I am in no hurry to start a national party right now, but keeping in mind that elections are likely to be held in Jammu and Kashmir, I have decided to start a unit there soon.” has done.” Doda district had reported.
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