Next Move : Ghulam Nabi Azad Planning To Quit Politics , Expresses Desire To Work For Civil Society

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Former Union Minister , G-23 member and Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has hinted at quitting politics to work for the civil society. Azad reported said that all political parties, including the Congress, create division amongst people.

Stressing for a change in civil society so that the people can stand for their rights, Azad said, “We have to bring about a change in society. Sometimes I think, and it is not a big deal that suddenly you come to know that I have retired and started doing social service.”

The senior leader who recently met the interim president of Congress Sonia Gandhi after the poll rout as an emissary of G23 to press for collective leadership also stated that ‘political parties work to create a divide, 24×7, amongst people on the basis of religion, caste and other things’.

“Be it my party or any other regional or national party, I am not forgiving any of them. Civil society should stay together and fight against the evils,” the Congress leader said at an event in Jammu on Sunday.

Azad, in his speech, blamed politicians for the ‘evils’ in society.

He was sceptical of the claims of the political parties bringing about a (good) change (in society).

“We (political parties) divided people on the basis of area (ilaka), region, village and cities, Hindus and Muslim, Shia and Sunnis, Dalit and non-Dalit, divisions in backward classes also. Now, who remains to be a human in all this? Human values have lost priorities amidst the decline…,” Azad said.

Lamenting communal polarisation in the country, the Congress leader blamed the political parties. “Politics in India has become so ugly that sometimes one has to doubt whether we are human,” he said.