SRINAGAR: In another jolt to Congress in Jammu and Kashmir, party’s former JKPCC chief Peerzada Sayeed resigned from the grand-old party along with his supporters.
Sayeed will join former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is likely to announce his own party.
Azad, 73, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, ended his five-decade association with the Congress on Friday, terming the party “comprehensively destroyed” and lashing out at Rahul Gandhi for “demolishing” its entire consultative mechanism.
Since his resignation, a number of prominent leaders have joined Azad, including a former member of parliament, a deputy chief minister, 15 former legislators including seven former ministers, besides a large number of Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI) members, municipal corporators and grass-root level workers from across Jammu and Kashmir.
