Two former Jammu and Kashmir ministers, who left the Congress in 2022, re -included the party on Friday, with a brief tenure with the Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) led by Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Taj Mohiuddin and Ghulam Mohammad Saruri re -inducted the Congress at the party office in Srinagar. He was welcomed by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary and in -charge of J&K, Naseer Hussain, J&K Congress chief Tariq Karra and other senior leaders were welcomed in the party’s Guna.
Mohiuddin left the Congress party with Azad in August 2022. He first represented the URI constituency in North Kashmir and served the departments of public health engineering and irrigation and flood control in the J&K government.
In August 2024, Mohiuddin left the DPAP and failed the assembly elections last year as an independent candidate.
Saruri also left the Congress in August 2022 and joined Azad’s new political organization.
He later left the DPAP and failed to fail from the Inderwal assembly seat that he first represented the J&K assembly. He first served as the Minister of Education in J&K government.
The two leaders were known as the top colleagues of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and their departure is seen as a setback for Azad’s DPAP.
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However, the two leaders failed and the DPAP secured a blank space in the UT assembly elections held last year.
Mohiuddin spent four decades with the Congress. He said, “I don’t think I ever left,” he said that his time from the party was only a “leave of absence”.
Meanwhile, Saruri said her return as “coming home”.
The state unit chief Karra welcomed the two, saying that he is a senior party leader “who has expressed his regrets to make another to leave the party. I am a firm belief that his return will strengthen the Congress on the ground”.
– With PTI input
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