New Delhi

Reacting to Ghulam Nabi Azad's resignation from Congress, senior party leader Salman Khurshid on Friday said the grand old party is in battlefield and anyone quitting the party impacts it.

Khurshid said, "If he (Azad) had any frustration or any complaint, he could have told us. If he would have considered us his companion in the party, he could have talked to us about it. If he needed any cooperation, we would have done that too."

"We remained together in every phase of the party. The party gave us something or the other during its good times, but today leaving the party is not right," Khurshid added.

Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that the person (Azad), who was given the highest respect by the Congress leadership, has shown his true character by making a personal attack on the Congress leadership.

While resigning from all posts in the party, Azad sent a five-page letter to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi. Reportedly, he may form a new party now.

Azad alleged that G-23 leaders, who demanded reforms in the party in 2020, were abused, humiliated and defamed in the Congress Working Committee meeting.

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Without naming Rahul Gandhi, he alleged, "All this happened because in the last eight years, the party leadership tried to put a non-serious person at the top."