Jammu: Former Congress Leader and senior politician Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday announced the name of his party as Democratic Azad Party (DAP) stating that Azad word in the party’s name mean free and independent and should not be connected with his personal name.
He also unveiled his party flag and explained the logic behind using three colours—Mustard, White and Dark Blue.
“Mustard colour means creativity and it also means diversity as well. Our country India and J&K is full of diversity. White means peace. We are followers of Gandhiji and will follow path of peace. Dark blue means deep sea, rather a depth from deep sea to skies. We should have depth,” he said while addressing a press conference in Jammu.
Azad was flanked by former Congress leaders and Ministers Tara Chand, G M Saroori, R S Chib and others.
He said that there will be elections in the party from the grass-root level.
“We are here to compete at our own level. I have no competition with any party. Will compete like students compete with each other in a classroom. We don’t have any an enemy or foe. Public is supreme and they have to decide about our fate,” Azad said, adding that for him, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christians are “just four chambers of a human heart.”
He said that 50 per cent tickets will be given to youth.
About Congress, he said that he remained affiliated with the party for a long time but he was always a follower of Mahatma Gandhi since his college days.
It is pertinent to mention that the veteran congress leader recently resigned from the Indian national party and called Rahul Gandhi a non-serious individual.
Along with Azad over two dozen senior congress functionaries had resigned from the party including former deputy chief minister Tara Chand. Two former legislators from the PDP and the Apni party had also joined him.
(KNO)