In three successive elections, the Congress has lost Jammu and Udhampur Lok Sabha seats to BJP. Dissidents in the J&K Congress allege that the incumbent party chief failed to encash prevailing anger against the BJP in the Jammu region.
Instead of trying to evolve consensus between the two constituents of the INDIA bloc, Congress supported the National Conference in the ongoing electoral battle in Kashmir Valley.
To strengthen his base in mountainous regions of Jammu province, Ghulam Nabi Azad is seizing all opportunities to expose Congress leaders in their home turfs.
To attack his former political mentor Ghulam Nabi Azad, the J&K Congress chief Vikar Rasool Wani triggered a controversy while calling the Padma award a "small award".
Azad revealed that the newly appointed president of J&K Congress was among those who asked him to quit the grand-old-party and float a new political party.