Srinagar: A top Congress office-bearer led a protest against and had Ghulam Nabi Azad’s effigy burnt in Jammu on Tuesday days after the former Union minister praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“While the Congress held him in high esteem, made him a member of the Rajya Sabha and chief minister of Jammu & Kashmir, he [Azad] lavished praise on Modi and has forged a friendship with the BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party,” said Shahnawaz Choudhary, a general secretary of Congress in Jammu & Kashmir. Choudhary accused Azad of weakening the Congress and acting on Modi’s behest. He said Azad did not come to Jammu & Kashmir for the District Development Council election campaign last year but praised Modi, who snatched the region’s statehood.

Angry workers from the Youth Congress and National Students’ Union of India, the party’s student wing, demanded Azad’s removal from the party at the protest.

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