Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has expressed dismay at the resignation of veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad from Congress.
NPCC president K Therie in a press release termed Azad’s resignation wrong as he had all the platforms to ventilate what he felt for the party and the nation, adding that he did so through what the media called G-23. He claimed that things were moving towards correction in line with what they advised, while the ‘Chintan Shivir’ held at Udaipur deliberated on almost all the issues regarding party election process.
Therie said if the senior Congress leader was really interested, he could have filed nomination for any post to serve the party, which he had nurtured for over 40 years. According to the NPCC chief, dumping Congress workers across the nation, who were looking up to his leadership to contribute in this difficult time, did not go down well and had hurt them. Moreover, resigning at the age of over 70 after enjoying the benefits for over 40 years was perhaps too late, he added. “The age of retirement has approached all of us. We want to leave a peaceful and progressive legacy for the younger generation, but the younger generation has to learn. He would have lost nothing by orchestrating what he considered was good for the nation within the party and still would have remained one of the tallest leaders in Congress,” the release stated. Therie stressed that the nation today required a change and Muslims and Christians particularly needed to protect themselves from being barred from voting. He alleged that both the communities hardly had any representation in the Union Cabinet, adding that in most Central government agencies, they were not well represented to prevent social discriminations and attack on personal laws. He said no interest was higher than that of the community and nation. He acknowledged that in politics there were ups and downs. He said those who were not clear in their idea of a nation, did not worry about ethnic values, were looking for money through corruption and did not perceive the future, ran after comfort and powerin confusion, which they might regret. Therie claimed that Congress and BJP would remain inevitable. He recalled that BJP came back from just two MPs and claimed that so would Congress bounce back from 50 MPs. Until then, he assured that Congress leaders would continue to uphold the party that could accommodate citizens from all walks of life.
