Jammu:
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has indicated he would quit politics and expressed disappointment over political parties, including the Congress, creating division among people. Mr Azad is among the Congress’s “G-23” dissidents.
“We have to bring about a change in society. Sometimes I think, and it is not a big deal that suddenly you come to know that I have retired and started doing social service,” Mr Azad said.
He recently met with Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi after the party’s bad performance as the G-23 sought for a collective leadership.
“Political parties work to create a divide, 24×7, amongst people on the basis of religion, caste and other things,” Mr Azad said. “Be it my party or any other regional or national party, I am not forgiving any of them. Civil society should stay together and fight against the evils,” the Congress leader said at an event in Jammu on Sunday.
Mr Azad blamed politicians for the “evils” in society. “We (political parties) divided people on the basis of region, village and cities, Hindus and Muslim, Shia and Sunnis, Dalit and non-Dalit, divisions in backward classes also. Now, who remains to be a human in all this? Human values have lost priorities amidst the decline,” Mr Azad said.
