New Delhi

Former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who resigned from the grand old party recently said that he was "forced" to leave.

Speaking to media persons, Azad said, "I have been forced to leave my home."

Taking a dig at the Congress over his resignation, he said, "Modi is an excuse, they have had an issue with me since the G23 letter was written. They never wanted anyone to write to them, question them."

"Several (Congress) meetings happened, but not even a single suggestion was taken," added Azad.

Azad on Friday resigned from all posts of the party citing the "immaturity" of Rahul Gandhi whom he blamed for "demolishing the consultative mechanism" in the party.

In a hard-hitting 5 page note to party interim president Sonia Gandhi, Azad claimed that a coterie runs the party while she was just a nominal head and all the major decisions were taken by "Shri Rahul Gandhi or rather worse his security guards and PAs".

His resignation from the party came days after he resigned from the party’s organisational post of Jammu and Kashmir.

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Manwhile, several political leaders from Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday met Azad, who is now planning to launch a new national party.