Ghulam Nabi Azad quits J-K Congress campaign committee

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday resigned from the post of chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Congress campaign committee hours after his appointmentAccording to sources Azad has refused to assume the post of Campaign Committee chairman of Jammu and Kashmir due to health reasons He has conveyed this to the Congress leadership and has also thanked the leadership for giving him the responsibilityThe development came after Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday appointed Vikar Rasool Wani as the partys JK unit president and Raman Bhalla as working presidentEarlier the JK Congress president post was held by Ghulam Ahmed Mir who is believed to be a close aide of AzadSonia Gandhi accepted the resignation of Mir from the post of Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee presidentCongress on Tuesday constituted the campaign committee political affairs committee coordination committee manifesto committee publicity and publication committee disciplinary committee and Pradesh election committee for Jammu and KashmirThe campaign committee was formed constituting 11 members with Azad as the chairman and Tariq Hamid Karra as vice chairman Further the committee includes the PCC president and working president as permanent invitees while G M Saroori has been made the convenorHowever the reshuffle in the partys Jammu and Kashmir unit is believed to have angered many leadersFormer Congress MLA Gulzar Ahmad Wani stepped down from the coordination committee as a mark of protest against the appointment of the PCC chief in JKI have resigned from Congress coordination committee in JK as a protest against the recent appointment of PCC chief in UT The decision is not in favour of the party said WaniAnother leader and former MLA resigned from the committee soon after its formationWe are unhappy as senior leaders were not consulted before taking a decision on JK PCC chief We have resigned from the partys coordination committee as a protest against the recent announcements of the PCC chief I have resigned from Congress primary membership said Former Congress MLA Haji Abdul Rashid DarPertinent to mention here Ghulam Nabi Azad is one of the group of 23 leaders who were vocal about leadership change in CongressThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever