Following the resignation by veteran leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, five former Congress legislators from Jammu and Kashmir, including former state ministers, also quit the party.
There are speculations that more J&K Congress leaders will follow Ghulam Mohammad Saroori, Haji Abdul Rashid , Mohammad Amin Bhatt, Gulzar Ahmad Wani, Chaudhary Akram Mohammad and Salman Nizami and resign in solidarity with Azad.
Ghulam Nabi Azad severed a 5-decade long relationship with the grand old party in a brutally honest letter to party chief Sonia Gandhi in which he blamed Rahul Gandhi for destroying the consultative mechanism of the party.
According to reports quoting sources, the 73-year-old former J&K chief minister is likely to form his own party.
The Congress has called the veteran leader's exit ‘unfortunate’ and the timing ‘awful’.
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