Setback for Azad’s party as two former ministers among leaders back in Congress

Jammu: 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. Former Members of Legislative Council (MLCs) Subash Gupta and 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 G A Mir. Both Sharma and Wani had unsuccessfully contested the l