NEW DELHI: “Let him go” was Rahul Gandhi’s blunt reply when advised that Himanta Biswa Sarma, as soon as the Congress’ key chief in Assam, had the assist of a majority of MLAs and would insurgent and give up the social gathering, Ghulam Nabi Azad writes in his autobiography ‘Azaad’. Azad, a former Congress loyalist who give up the social gathering in August 2022 and launched his personal regional social gathering, additionally targets Sonia Gandhi and says she didn’t assert herself as social gathering president ‘regardless of understanding the disastrous penalties that lay forward’.
Sarma, who went on to affix the BJP and is the chief minister of Assam, was an essential Congress strategist. Ten MLAs adopted him when he give up the social gathering in September 2015 over variations with the Congress management in Assam.
“Rahul told us bluntly that there would be no change in leadership. We pointed out to him (Rahul) that Himanta had the majority of MLAs and would rebel and quit the party. ‘Let him go,’ Rahul said. The meeting was over,” Azad, 74, says in his autobiography that can launch subsequent month.
Azad, who’s chairperson of the newly fashioned Democratic Progressive Azad Party, says Rahul Gandhi “mismanaged” the Sarma episode. Sarma, 54, was appointed chief minister in 2021, simply 5 years after leaving the Congress, after he ensured a second consecutive win for the BJP in Assam.
According to Azad, he was unsure if Rahul mentioned what he did “to assert himself or because he was ignorant that his decision would have far-reaching consequences, not only in the state of Assam but the entire Northeast”.
The former chief of opposition within the Rajya Sabha says he apprised Sonia Gandhi of the brand new “twist in the tale” after the interplay with Rahul Gandhi.
“… It is rather unfortunate that she did not assert herself as the party president. Instead, she asked me to request Himanta to not rock the boat,” Azad writes.
From devising a method with Indira Gandhi to deliver Rajiv into politics and convincing Sonia to turn out to be the social gathering chief to his mediation efforts within the tussle between Rahul Gandhi and Himanta Biswa Sarma, Ghulam Nabi in “Azaad” explores the challenges of management and the implications of daring to deliver recent pondering into the political panorama, the publishers Rupa mentioned in an announcement.
