After resigning from Congress, Ghulam Nabi Azad says Not dua, only dawa can save the party

Ghulam Nabi Azad, who resigned from Congress on February 26, in an exclusive interview with India Today, said that the party’s recovery was beyond prayers and it needed medicines to recover.

“Congress needs dawa not dua to recover. It needs surgery to reinvent itself. It needs physicians and surgeons, not compounders,” he told India Today’s Rajdeep Sardesai.

Azad, who had criticised Congress MP Rahul Gandhi for “demolishing the party’s consultive



mechanisms” in his resignation letter, said: “I like Rahul as a person, but the problem lies with his brand of politics. This is not a generational battle. Had that been the case, so many leaders of Rahul’s age group wouldn’t have left the party.”

Azad was referring to several ‘young’ leaders who had resigned from the party in recent times, Jyotiraditya Scindia being the most notable among them. Scindia quit the Congress in 2020 and is now the Union civil aviation minister.