PM Modi tears up, Ghulam Nabi Azad assaults his personal get together in his farewell speech in Parliament

Senior Congress chief and decades-old Gandhi loyalist – Ghulam Nabi Azad delivered his farewell speech on the ground of the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, and pulled no punches. Being his final speech within the parliament, after an eventful profession spanning over 4 a long time, Azad portrayed himself as a bipartisan chief. Not solely did he venture himself as such, however the speeches and remarks of many BJP leaders, starting with a minimum of Prime Minister Narendra Modi left many political spectators and analysts shocked. The bonhomie between Azad and the Prime Minister was free-flowing, as each broke down whereas delivering their respective speeches yesterday.Azad, whose time period as Rajya Sabha member ends on February 15, has been a member of the higher home for 28 years. He was a member of Lok Sabha for 10 years and was Chief Minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir for 3 years. Ghulam Nabi Azad joined politics in 1973 as a member of the Youth Congress. Of late, nonetheless, the stalwart has misplaced favour with the Congress excessive command, which is to say, with the Gandhi household. It is for this very purpose that the person is assured he won’t be re-elected by the Congress to the Rajya Sabha.Azad additionally mentioned he was proud that he’s an “Indian Muslim”. “I am among those fortunate people who never went to Pakistan. When I read about circumstances in Pakistan, I feel proud to be a Hindustani Muslim.” The Indian Muslim believed in peaceable existence in contrast to strife and battle in Muslim nations, he mentioned. With such statements, Azad successfully put to relaxation the Congress’ relentless “intolerance is on the rise” bogey.“There were times when we had verbal fights. But you [PM Modi] never took my words personally,” Ghulam Nabi Azad mentioned. The Congress chief went on to comment that the nation is run with collaborations, not fights – an understanding which he imbibed from former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Azad additionally made it clear that he might need mentioned quite a lot of issues, purely in obeyance of his get together line. Effectively, Azad made it recognized that he’s leaving the Rajya Sabha with no laborious emotions, and that he made the remarks purely on the behest of the Congress and Gandhi household.Earlier, PM Modi obtained emotional whereas bidding adieu to the senior Congress chief, reminiscing notably of an incident when a terror assault occurred in 2006, during which Gujarati households grew to become the victims. “Azad was the first person to call me. During that call he could not stop crying,” PM Modi mentioned with a choked voice as tears rolled down from his eyes. The then CM of J&Okay went to the airport when the our bodies have been despatched again and stored in contact until the airplane landed in Gujarat.Knowing very properly that this was his final time period as a Congress MP, Ghulam Nabi Azad cared little about preserving the Gandhi household pleased. To add to the woes of the Congress, the bonhomie of Azad not simply with PM Modi, however the praises and heat salutations he obtained from throughout the political spectrum served as an eyesore, because the ‘royal’ household was made to understand that the Congress is an empty shell with out nearly all of its non-family leaders. As a matter of reality, Azad’s issues with the Gandhis first surfaced final 12 months, when the chief joined 22 different stalwarts of the get together to demand real-time, constructive and foundational adjustments throughout the get together, starting with elections to the posts dominated by the household.PM Modi referred to G23 yesterday. Today he obtained emotional whereas bidding Azad goodbye, and Azad in flip returned the favour by bursting the intolerance balloon.Imagine being the Gandhi household right now.— Ajit Datta (@ajitdatta) February 9, 2021Azad’s political profession instantly took successful, as he was eliminated because the All India Congress Committee (AICC) normal secretary and in addition discharged from the put up of get together in-charge of Haryana State. Relations have been chilly ever since between the Gandhis and Azad, and Tuesday’s developments within the Rajya Sabha have decreased the mother-son-daughter trio to a bunch of sorry spectators.