Prominent National Conference Leader Quits Party After Devender Rana's Exit

Devender Rana, the younger brother of Union minister Jitendra Singh, quit the National Conference on October 10.

Former Jammu and Kashmir minister Prem Sagar Aziz quit the National Conference (NC) on Tuesday and extended support to former party colleague Devender Singh Rana, who joined the BJP recently.

Mr Aziz, who was the National Conference's Bani Assembly constituency in-charge, said he is resigning from the primary membership of the party, along with his supporters.

"I was in the Congress for 45 years and joined the National Conference only because of Rana. As I know that he is working for the cause of Jammu, I support his cause unequivocally.

"Now that Rana has dissociated himself from the National Conference for the sake of Jammu, I cannot continue in the party and extend my support to Rana," he said in a statement.