Padma Bhushan: Jairam swipe at Ghulam Nabi Azad widens rift in Congress

Thursday, 27 January 2022newsdesk

THE BJP government’s decision to confer Padma Bhushan on veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has once again brought to the fore the divide in the grand old party. While the party officially did not comment, many of the Group of 23 leaders, who had earlier sought changes in the party, came out congratulating Azad.

New Delhi, 27 January 2022

As per news report of The Indian Express, Congress chief whip in Rajya Sabha Jairam Ramesh’s swipe at Azad, a former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, has angered the group of leaders who had written to party president Sonia Gandhi demanding sweeping changes in the party structure. In fact, senior Congress leader and former Union minister Ashwani Kumar hit out at Ramesh, who while praising CPI(M) veteran Buddhadeb Bhattacharya’s rejection of the Padma Bhushan, tweeted on Tuesday: “Right thing to do. He wants to be Azad not Ghulam.”

Source - The Indian Express