Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and Congress defector Ghulam Nabi Azad’s Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) appears to be at a crossroads as the party seems to be struggling to maintain its existence in the Union territory.
The party, since its launch, has faced back-to-back failures, including in Lok Sabha polls as well as in assembly polls, where the party failed to fetch any seats.
Sources said that all those leaders who had quit Congress in 2022 have decided to rejoin the nation’s “grand old party” again.
Many leaders under the leadership of former legislator Taj Mohi-ud-din are set to rejoin Congress in the next few days, they said.
Taj, along with several leaders and workers, quit Congress in August 2022 to join DPAP. He later announced his resignation from the party in August 2024 to contest assembly polls as an independent candidate from the Uri constituency.
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Other leaders who intended to rejoin the Congress include G M Saroori, Muhammad Amin Bhat from Devsar, Ashok Kumar, Gulzar Ahmad Wani, and others, sources close to the development said.
“The mass re-joining is expected to take place in Jammu or New Delhi this week,” they said.
Those willing to rejoin Congress have already resigned from DPAP last year. DPAP is facing an uncertain future following its crushing defeat in the 2024 assembly elections.
The party structure and its activities in Jammu and Kashmir have come to a standstill, with party founder Azad himself maintaining distance from the political scene in Jammu and Kashmir.
The road to recovery looks impossible for DPAP, and it seems the party with the defection of its senior leaders has finally come to an untimely conclusion.
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