Ghulam Nabi Azad’s resignation letter to Congress similar to the one I wrote when leaving party: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

"I had written in 2015 that a time will come when only the Gandhis will be left in the Congress and all others will leave. This is what is happening," the Chief Minister of Assam stated.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on August 26 said the resignation letter sent by Ghulam Nabi Azad to Congress president Sonia Gandhi had many similarities with the one he had written when he quit the party in 2015.

The problem in the Congress is that everybody knows Rahul Gandhi is "immature, whimsical and unpredictable" but his mother is still trying to promote him, Mr. Sarma said on the sidelines of a programme in Guwahati.

“The Congress president is not taking care of the party. She had been basically trying to promote her son all these years, but it is a futile attempt... Her mission will not be successful,” Mr. Sarma claimed. “People who had been loyal to the party are deserting it one by one,” he said.

"I had written in 2015 that a time will come when only the Gandhis will be left in the Congress and all others will leave. This is what is happening," the CM stated.

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday resigned from all party positions, including its primary membership, delivering another blow to the embattled party that has seen a series of leaders leave it.

The situation in the Congress, Azad maintained, has reached a point of no return and now "proxies" are being propped to take over leadership of the party.