Veteran chief Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday introduced the title of his new social gathering almost a month after his exit from the Congress. The brand new social gathering can be referred to as the ‘Democratic Azad Get together’, he stated at an occasion, stressing that the social gathering would have “no age bar”. “Youth and veterans would co-exist within the social gathering,” he underlined. Azad had ended his many years lengthy affiliation with the Congress on August 26.
“Round 1,500 names for my new social gathering had been despatched to us, in Urdu, and Sanskrit. The combo of Hindi and Urdu is ‘Hindustani’. We needed the title to be democratic, peaceable and impartial,” Azad was quoted as saying by information company ANI.
“Our precedence is to get the social gathering registered. However since elections (in Jammu and Kashmir) can occur anytime, associated developments would proceed,” the previous J&Ok chief minister stated, with out revealing too many particulars.
Azad had an acrimonious exit from the grand outdated social gathering final month simply earlier than it began its mass contact programme- the Bharat Jodo Yatra – with a watch on the 2024 nationwide elections. His social gathering’s launch comes as his former social gathering tackles a contemporary infighting in Rajasthan, simply weeks earlier than the elections for its president’s publish.
As a frontrunner of ‘Group of 23’ or G-23 because it was generally recognized, Azad was among the many 23 senior leaders of the social gathering who had sought restructuring of the Congress. Following his exit, a lot of leaders had give up the grand outdated social gathering.
Final 12 months, Amarinder Singh too had give up the Congress following a number of confrontations with Navjot Singh Sidhu. He has now joined the BJP.
(With inputs from ANI)
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