Jammu and Kashmir: Azad, a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, was accorded a warm welcome by his supporters who turned up in large numbers at the Jammu airport and took him in a procession to the rally venue.
Ghulam Nabi Azad news: Azad said his resignation from Congress was just a "tip of the iceberg", indicating that he would step up his attack on the Gandhis in the coming days.
Ghulam Nabi Azad counters Congress: After Azad ended his association with Congress last month, the party had alleged that his "DNA has been Modi-fied" and several leaders attacked him citing Modi's speech in Rajya Sabha in February last year.
Azad has categorically said he can't increase even one vote of the BJP and the allegation that he will join the BJP is false.
Sixty-four more leaders, including former deputy chief minister Tara Chand, tendered their resignation and joined the Ghulam Nabi Azad camp.
Jairam Ramesh pokes Azad: Congress workers held a public meeting in Jammu and Kashmir's Bhalessa. Azad had criticized Congress leadership, including Jairam Ramesh after he announced his resignation from the party in a five-page letter to Sonia Gandhi last week.
Ghulam Nabi Azad's Jammu rally: With the timing of Azad's launch event in Jammu and Kashmir coinciding with Gandhi's rally, it will be seen if there are more fireworks on the day the former Congress chief addresses the mega event at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan.
Ghulam Nabi Azad ended his five-decade association with the Congress, terming the party “comprehensively destroyed”.
Congress President Election: While Tharoor declined to comment on whether he would throw his hat into the ring, he has written an article for the Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi in which he called for a "free and fair" election.
On G-23 letter, Ghulam Nabi Azad said, "I didn't sleep for 6 days before and after writing the letter (G23) because we gave blood for the party. People there today are useless...It's saddening that Congress has such spokesmen who don't even know about us..."
Ghulam Nabi Azad had resigned from all posts of the Congress party citing the "immaturity" of Rahul Gandhi whom he blamed for "demolishing the consultative mechanism" in the party.
Even as the Congress claimed that no doubts were raised over the election procedure for choosing the party president, sources have said that senior leader Anand Sharma did raise some questions.
Ghulam Nabi Azad, a Congress veteran who resigned from the party on August 26, is scheduled to reach Jammu on September 4. He has announced floating a new party beginning with Jammu and Kashmir where assembly polls are due.
Ghulam Nabi Azad quits Congress: Veteran Congress leader Azad, who ended his five-decade association with the grand old party on Friday, accused Rahul Gandhi of demolishing the entire consultative mechanism and also pinned the blame on him for the 2014 electoral debacle.
While resigning from the primary membership and all other posts of the party, Azad wrote a five-page stinging, no-holds-barred, letter to the party interim president Sonia Gandhi, and told her in plain words that her son Rahul was ‘immature’, ‘childish’ and ‘surrounded by inexperienced sycophants’.
Manish Tewari on Congress crisis: The former Union minister's remarks comes a day after senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad ended his 45-year-old association with the Congress on Friday.
Would the BJP support Azad as the chief ministerial candidate in J&K? Since politics is the art of the possible, his supporters are already seeing their leader wearing the crown.
Ghulam Nabi Azad resignation: He claimed if Azad (73) had been made a Rajya Sabha member again after his term in the Upper House of Parliament ended last year, he would not have resigned from the Congress.
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday resigned from all party positions, including its primary membership. The senior leader criticised Congress leadership and Rahul Gandhi's approach in politics in a letter addressed to Sonia Gandhi. Watch this episode of Aaj Ki Baat.
Ghulam Nabi Azad quits Congress: Ghulam Nabi Azad's resignation from the Congress created a political storm in Jammu and Kashmir Friday as former minister R S Chib and four other party leaders also quit, and more are likely to go, leaving the grand old party in disarray in the union territory.
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