New Delhi, 26/8: In a jolt to the Congress, senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday quit the party, accusing the leadership of propping up “proxies” and trying to foist a non-serious leader at the helm in the last eight years, which had led to conceding space to the BJP and regional parties.
In a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Azad said proxies are being propped up to take over leadership and organisational elections are a sham. He added that all senior and experienced leaders were sidelined and new coterie of inexperienced sycophants started running the affairs of the party.