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Veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday said the party s victory in the upcoming assembly polls in four states and a union territory (West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry) is of top priority.
Amid turmoil within the grand old party that has pitted apparent dissenters like him against the Gandhis and their loyalists, Azad said he will campaign for the Congress ahead of elections wherever he would be invited. The victory of Congress party in the forthcoming state elections is a priority. I will be campaigning wherever I will be invited by the party or individual, news agency ANI quoted Azad as saying.
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India News: JAMMU: Congress party workers on Tuesday burnt an effigy of senior party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and raised slogans against him in a protest in Jammu.
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JAMMU: After a group of ‘dissident’ Congress leaders met in Jammu in an apparent show of strength and senior party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the party unit in the Union territory is showing signs of turmoil.
On Tuesday, a few hours after a section of Congress workers burnt an effigy of Azad, accusing him of conspiring against the party at the behest of BJP “for personal gains”, another group came out in Azad’s support, bringing a rift within the party’s J&K unit to the fore.
Congress workers, led by former general secretary of the party’s J&K unit and a district development council (DDC) member Mohammad Shahnawaz Choudhary, burnt Azad’s effigy outside the Press Club on Tuesday afternoon. They raised slogans against Azad, demanding his ouster from the party. “Congress has always given him (Ghulam Nabi Azad) so much. Congress made him the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, but when it is time for him to pay back to the party,