Jammu, Nov. 20 -- Former ministers, including Jugal Kishore Sharma and Abdul Majeed Wani, besides two former members of legislative council (MLCs) Subhash Chander Gupta and Brij Mohan Sharma, on Wednesday returned to Congress, in a setback setback for Ghulam Nabi Azad's Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP). They joined Congress at a function organised to mark the 108th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The leaders were warmly 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. These four Azad loyalists had quit the Congress in 2022 to join DPAP. "Congress is the only party which believes in secularism and gives its leaders freedom to speak their mind. Congress does not do religion-based politics," Sharma said in his speech after joining the party. Senior DPAP leader Salman Nizami reacted to leaders rejoining Congress, calling them "deadwood," noting that some had left party, contested Independently and were still using Ghulam Nabi Azad's name but they had lost by large margins at the last year's assembly elections....