DPAP Hit as Former Ministers Rejoin Congress

Two former Jammu and Kashmir ministers - Jugal Kishore Sharma and Abdul Majid Wani - along with hundreds of their supporters on Thursday returned to the Congress here, in a setback for Ghulam Nabi Azad’s Democratic Progressive Azad Party.

- Observer News Service

According to PTI, former Member of Legislative Council (MLC) Subash Gupta and another prominent DPAP leader, Brij Mohan Sharma, also rejoined Congress at a function organised to mark the 108th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

The leaders, who had quit the Congress in 2022 to join Azad’s newly formed outfit, were welcomed into the party fold by national general secretary and Jammu and Kashmir in-charge Syed Naseer Hussain, J&K Pradesh Congress Committee president Tariq Hameed Karra and AICC general secretary GA Mir.

Both Sharma and Wani had unsuccessfully contested the last assembly elections from the Vaishno Devi and Doda segments, respectively. Azad did not aggressively campaign for the party candidates, citing ill health.

Sharma was a minister in the Mufti Mohammad Say-