‘If you may be in Congress, it is necessary to be spineless’: Ghulam Nabi Azab says Rahul Gandhi wouldn’t have pure inside private event

On April 5, former Congress chief and chief of Democratic Progress Azad Party Ghulam Nabi Azad lashed out at Congress Party, notably at disqualified Congress MP Rahul Gandhi for tearing down the ordinance that was binned in 2013 after Gandhi protested. Azad was in dialog with India Today’s Rajdeep Sardesai on the launch event of his e e-book ‘Azaad’ the place he remarked, “If you are in Congress, you are spineless”.

During the dialog, Azad said when the ordinance was tabled in 2013 to keep away from losing the lawmakers from speedy disqualification if convicted and sentenced in a courtroom case, Rahul Gandhi opposed it. He was not even a member of the cabinet for the time being. Calling it unfortunate, Azad said the cabinet must have caught to the ordinance and by no means bowed proper all the way down to Gandhi’s protest.

Azad recognized that Gandhi was not in any licensed place to do what he did, as no outsider might reject the ordinance the easiest way he did. Only the President of the nation can strike down the ordinance, not a member of the parliament. However, the cabinet collectively decided to associate with binning the ordinance after Rahul opposed it. “Look now, the one who cut it is applied on him,” he said.

Azad said when a political event in power makes some regulation, they’ve to contemplate the long term and plan for the time as soon as they would not be in power. Congress didn’t take motion, and now Rahul Gandhi confronted the heat inside the kind of disqualification from Lok Sabha after he was convicted in a defamation case and sentenced to 2 years in jail. The Congress scion has now appealed in courtroom in the direction of his sentencing.

‘When you are in Congress, you are spineless’

In his assertion, Azad moreover recognized that Rahul Gandhi was the first motive he was not throughout the Congress event. “I wish Rahul Gandhi would have worked 1/50th of what Indira Gandhi or Rajiv Gandhi did, he would have succeeded,” he remarked.

Sardesai tried to nook Azad by saying had he been a Rajya Sabha member of Congress, he would have lined up outdoor the Surat Court to help Rahul Gandhi. Azad said, “Yes, it is true. Because when you are in Congress, you are spineless.” Notably, Azad not too way back remarked that he was utterly comfortable that he left the Congress event as he would not have stood outdoor Surat Court as a result of the Congress leaders and staff did.

Interestingly, he recognized that he is “2000 per cent more Congressi” then any chief who’s working politics on Twitter. However, the event would not need leaders like him, however it wants people who can do Twitter politics and have the audacity to say that Congress would get 500 seats owing to Bharat Jodo Yatra.

Azad said the help for any event chief from totally different event members should not be on account of a whip was issued. He said, “I was the one who brought a vote of no confidence against former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao. I told him you have to face Jain Commission, but although I brought the no-confidence motion, I am going to support you, and I did.” He added not even former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi issued a whip forcing then MPs to help her, it bought right here organically.

Ghulam Nabi Azad left event in 2022

In August 2022, Ghulam Nabi Azad declined the submit of chairman of the advertising and marketing marketing campaign committee and likewise resigned from the political affairs committee of the Jammu and Kashmir state unit of the Congress. He refused to easily settle for the posts inside hours of his committee appointment and left the event. Later, Ghulam Nabi Azad formed his private political event Democratic Progress Azad Party.