According to Azad, "They never wanted anyone to write to them or challenge them." Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Azad, 73, abandoned his five-decade affiliation with the Congress on Friday, calling it completely wrecked and berating Rahul Gandhi for destroying the party's whole consultation process.

He claimed that the public do not understand his contribution to the party and that the Congress does not appreciate its leaders. "I send the Congress my most best wishes, but the party needs medication more than wishes. Additionally, compounders rather than doctors are providing the Congress with these medications, he informed reporters. "The party's leadership is too busy to fix the party's problems. While criticising the party leadership, Azad added, "The leaders elevated in states are causing people to leave the organisation rather than bringing them together with the party.

He praised the Prime Minister, saying, "I had believed Modi to be a crass guy as he is not married and has no children but he has revealed his humanitarian side when he talked in Parliament about the event that occurred with the Gujarati visitors while I was the Chief Minister." The Congress responded by criticising Ghulam Nabi Azad for his most recent criticism of the party's senior officials, claiming that by doing so he furthers his own demise and fulfils a mandate to "slander" the party. Jairam Ramesh, the communications director for the Congress, responded to Azad by saying, "After such a lengthy career, Mr. Azad degrades himself further by giving interviews indiscriminately, courtesy completely the party he's been instructed to malign." Following in Ghulam Nabi Azad's footsteps, a number of leaders and activists who left the Congress gathered under the direction of former Jammu and Kashmir minister G M Saroori to increase support for the senior leader in his next endeavour. On September 4, Azad, a former member of the Congress who left the organisation on August 26, is expected to arrive in Jammu.