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been Modi-fied,” Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh tweeted.
Speaking with reporters, the party’s media department head Pawan Khera also lashed out at Azad and linked his resignation to end of his Rajya Sabha tenure. “As soon your Rajya Sabha term got over, you got restless. You could not stay without a post even for a second,” Khera said.
Azad on Friday resigned from all party positions, including its primary membership, ahead of organisational elections and accused the leadership of committing “fraud” on the party in the name of “sham” internal polls. He also strongly criticised Rahul Gandhi in his resignation letter.
In a five-page no holds barred letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi that comes ahead of crucial organisational elections in the party, Azad said he does so with a “heavy heart”.
The Congress, he said, has lost both the will and the ability under tutelage of the coterie that runs the AICC to fight for what is right for India, Azad, who is part of the G-23 group seeking change in party, said.
Before starting a ‘Bharat jodo yatra’, the leadership should have undertaken a ‘Congress jodo yatra’, the veteran leader said in his letter.
The 23 leaders who wrote to point out weaknesses in the party were abused, insulted, humiliated, vilified, Azad said. At no place have elections been held at any level of organisation, he added while announcing his resignation from the Congress.
The situation in the Congress, he said, has reached a point of no return and now “proxies” are being propped to take over leadership of the party, he said. Holding the leadership squarely responsible for perpetrating “giant fraud” on the party, Azad said handpicked lieutenants of the AICC were coerced to sign on lists prepared by coterie that runs the organisation.
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