Ghulam Nabi Azad opts out of contest from prestigious Anantnag LS seat
This would have been the first election from his own party that Azad would have fought after quitting the Congress.
This would have been the first election from his own party that Azad would have fought after quitting the Congress.
Omar and Azad exchanged barbs as both are currently campaigning in the Chenab Valley region consisting of the Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban districts of the Jammu division.
Azad said that while he had several reasons for contesting the Lok Sabha elections, safeguarding the jobs and land of the people of Jammu and Kashmir was his top priority.
Candidature of Azad was announced on Tuesday by a senior DPAP leader, Taj Mohiuddin in Srinagar.
Azad has already announced his trusted lieutenant GM Saroori as the DPAP candidate in Udhampur against Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh.
Amit Shah headed a meeting with leaders of the core group of Jammu and Kashmir Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday at his residence in Delhi which lasted for three hours.
The meeting came within 24 hours of Azad's resignation from all posts in Congress and it holds importance as the polls in the valley are likely to be held later this year.
A day after Ghulam Nabi Azad's exit from the Congress, MP Manish Tewari said that a crack seems to have appeared in coordination between India and the Congress that existed since 1885.
Azad in his letter has mentioned about the 'sycophants' ruling the Congress in the present times.
"It was not expected from him to write a letter when Soniaji was in Delhi's hospital. Soniaji has saved and run the party for the last 20 years. The style Azad sab put in his papers is inhumane... against human feelings...and highly insensitive."