“Ghulam Nabi Azad should be expelled from Congress”: Congress leader Naseeb Pathan

A Congress leader in Uttar Pradesh on Friday said the party should expel Ghulam Nabi Azad who is among 23 signatories to a letter which involved an overhaul of the organisation.

Twenty-three Congress leaders wrote to party chief Sonia Gandhi, seeking a lively and full-time party leadership among other organisational changes.

“In the CWC meeting, party chief Sonia Gandhi said that she was hurt by his letter but now the difficulty was over. Even then, he talked to the media and posted on Facebook subsequent day,” Naseeb Pathan, who was party MLC between 2004 and 2016, told PTI-Bhasha.

“As he has broken the party’s discipline, he should be made ‘azad’ and expelled from the party,” he added.

Earlier within the day, Pathan had released a video on social media over the matter.
“You know you (Azad) got 320 votes within the assembly once you contested for the primary time. then you went everywhere as nominated. it isn’t appropriate to mention such things about the party,” he said.

When contacted, the party’s media coordinator Lalan Kumar said, “I am conscious of this statement but i’m not well.”

This is not the primary time that Pathan has given a press release against Azad.

After the 2017 assembly polls, he had said that Azad, who was UP Congress in-charge at that point , should take responsibility for the party’s poor show within the elections and resign.