From the Urdu Press: From Maulana Azad and Ghulam Nabi Azad to Congress’s survival crisis to Modi vs Kejriwal | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express
‘Ghulam Nabi Azad will not get the izzat anywhere that he always got from the Congress,’ the Roznama Rashtriya Sahara writes, saying that he too has proved Maulana Abul Kalam Azad right that politics is a ‘heartless’ game marked by disloyalty, betrayal and ruthlessness
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HomePolitical PulseFrom the Urdu Press: From Maulana Azad and Ghulam Nabi Azad to Congress’s survival crisis to Modi vs Kejriwal
From the Urdu Press: From Maulana Azad and Ghulam Nabi Azad to Congress’s survival crisis to Modi vs Kejriwal
‘Ghulam Nabi Azad will not get the izzat anywhere that he always got from the Congress,’ the Roznama Rashtriya Sahara writes, saying that he too has proved Maulana Abul Kalam Azad right that politics is a ‘heartless’ game marked by disloyalty, betrayal and ruthlessness
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New Delhi | Updated: August 30, 2022 4:05:47 pm
Former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal (File/PTI)As Ghulam Nabi Azad jumped ship and joined the exodus of leaders who have exited from the sinking Congress, the Urdu press took a dim view of Azad’s move, framing it as a classic instance of rapacious politicians indulging in self-seeking aggrandisement. While holding that the drifting 136-year-old grand old party must do soul-searching in light of Azad’s devastating critique and apply correctives, the leading Urdu dailies disapproved of his vitriolic, no-holds-barred tirade against Rahul Gandhi. Reeling off a plethora of key posts and assignments in the organisation and governments that the Congress allocated to Azad over the last 50 years, they questioned his bid to desert a haemorrhaging Congress at a time when the idea of India is at stake, which makes it incumbent, they maintained, on all secular, progressive, and liberal forces to unite to save it. Seeing in Azad’s move, made just ahead of the Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, a preference for personal interest over principles, expediency over ideology, they referred to his camaraderie with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and highlighted the latter’s teary-eyed farewell to him in the Rajya Sabha.
Roznama Rashtriya Sahara
Commenting on Ghulam Nabi Azad’s move to sever his five-decade-old bonds with the Congress and single out Rahul Gandhi for the existential crisis gripping the party, the Roznama Rashtriya Sahara, in its editorial on August 27, invokes Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, one of the leading lights of India’s freedom movement, stating that Maulana Azad was elected as the Indian National Congress president twice. A champion of syncretic, pluralistic Indian nationhood, Maulana Azad, who never compromised on his unrelenting advocacy of the Hindu-Muslim unity, once said that “Siasat ke seene mein dil nahi hota (Politics is heartless),” the daily says. “Maulana Azad’s remarkable line has always proved to be true, especially involving his own Congress leaders, who have continued to desert the beleaguered party since its loss of power in 2014, mainly defecting to the BJP to satiate their lust of power… Today, Ghulam Nabi Azad has also registered his name on the expanding list of these opportunist leaders.”
It notes that in his explosive five-page resignation letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Azad has bitterly blamed Rahul for everything that has been ailing the Congress, from sidelining all senior and experienced leaders to demolishing the entire consultative mechanism, to letting a coterie of inexperienced sycophants and even his PCs and guards run the party affairs. Azad even questioned Sonia’s leadership, telling her that she was just a nominal figurehead and that under her and Rahul’s presidentship the party lost 39 of the total 49 Assembly polls during 2014-22, it says.
What more izzat (respect) Azad expected from the Congress that led to his resignation is for him to spell out, the daily writes, but the party gave the 73-year-old leader respect and posts in abundance, making him its Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs multiple times, giving him key positions in governments and the organisation, appointing him Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, Union minister in all its governments since 1980s, and to the position of the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha from 2014 to 2021.
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