Veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad Quits Congress, Other Top Stories
Ghulam Nabi Azad's is the latest big exit from the Congress in the past three years and the third this year after Kapil Sibal and Ashwani Kumar. In a long resignation letter, Ghulam Nabi Azad praised Sonia Gandhi but was scathing in his criticism of Rahul Gandhi, blaming him for the Congress's defeat in the 2014 national election; after high drama over a sealed envelope in Jharkhand, sources have said the Election Commission, while holding Chief Minister Hemant Soren guilty in the illegal mining case, has recommended only "disqualification" and other top stories.
