New Delhi: Former Jammu and Kashmir CM and Congress senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, resigned for his party positions in Congress, his scathing critique on the Gandhis, mainly Rahul Gandhi.

Ghulam Nabi Azad told the media persons that he will launch a new party soon. The first unit will be in Jammu and Kashmir in view of impending polls. Soon after his resignation, five Jammu and Kashmir Congress leaders also resigned in his support. He slammed the Gandhis with a five-page resignation letter on Friday, accusing Rahul Gandhi of childish behaviour and immaturity and of letting a coterie of inexperienced sycophants run the party.

Azad in his letter said that he joined the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir in the mid-1970s, when it was still a taboo to be associated with the party, given its chequered history in the state from 8^th August 1953 onwards the arrest of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah being the nadir of its political myopia.

The Congress is focused towards a Bharat Jodo Yatra to be led by Rahul Gandhi next month. He was a leading member of the “G-23” or the group of 23 leaders who wrote to Sonia Gandhi in 2020 alleging a leadership drift and urging major reforms.