While two former MPs have turned rebels in BJP, two former ministers who were denied tickets are unhappy with Congress. In a state which has seen a straight contest between these two parties, AAP has already complicated affairs.
Days after he joined a meeting of Congress "rebels", Shashi Tharoor has been told firmly by party leaders in Kerala not to attend a seminar of the ruling Left next month.
At a meeting of the Congress "G-23" or rebel group last night, leaders ruled out splitting the party for now, but called for the Gandhis to remove their loyalists from key posts to enable a resurrection of India's oldest party, sources said today.
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The Congress and its supporters in Jammu and Kashmir couldn’t be more confused and hopeful at the same time. And it’s all got to do with senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, a party loyalist since the early 1970s. He upset the party’s powerful family circle last year by being among the “Gang of 23” to write a letter seeking reforms in the organisation an act seen as a dare, an affront. He retired from the Rajya Sabha recently, but his televised farewell will be remembered for Prime Minister Modi tearing up as he waxed lyrical about Azad sahab, the wise parliamentarian. The Kashmiri politician reciprocated in a series of rallies in Jammu early March. He praised Modi for equal measure, publicly and in front of his home folks.