2 months after quitting, Ghulam Nabi Azad now praises Congress


Is former senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad dangling an olive branch to the Congress from whose basic membership he resigned on August 26 this year?Azad subsequently formed his own political party, Democratic Azad Party which he said would contest the forthcoming assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.Surprising his supporters who followed him by resigning from the Congress, Azad on Sunday said that the Congress alone has the capacity to challenge the BJP in Gujarat and Himachal assembly elections.He said the the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is just a party restricted to the Union Territory of Delhi.Talking to some reporters during his visit to Doda district, Azad praised the Congress for its secularism and said that he was only against the Congress’ weak party system.

He also made it clear that he was never against the Congress policy of secularism.”I would still want the Congress to win Gujarat and Himachal assembly elections,” he said.Surprisingly, Azad showed his confidence in the Congress saying that it takes along Hindu and Muslim farmers.