Ghulam Nabi Azad floats `Democratic Azad Party’, also unveils party flag

 

 

Former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad finally announced the name of his new party on Monday. It will be called Democratic Azad Party.

 

 

Pertains to mention here that Azad had quit Congress on 26 August and while speaking to reporters in Jammu during the announcement of his party’s name and unveiling of party flag , he said, "Around 1500 names for my new party were sent to us in Urdu, Sanskrit . The mix of Hindi and Urdu is Hindustani. We want the name to be democratic, peaceful and independent. Prior to that Azad had called a meeting of his party leaders and workers on Sunday.

 

 

Azad also released his party flag with three strips in different colours—mustard, white and dark blue. Speaking to reporters, Azad said the mustard colour in the party flag means creativity, power to think and unity in diversity, while white stands for peace and brotherhood. The dark blue in the flag represents open space and freedom to think and tolerance and imagination as deep as the sea and as high as the sky, he added.

 

 

 

 

 

Azad also said they have no competition with any political party. “We will speak about our own policies and programmes and let others do their own and leave everything to the people who are the ultimate masters in politics.