Captain Amarinder blames Gandhis for Congress rout in 5 states
Chandigarh, March 14: Holding the Gandhis solely responsible for the complete rout of the Congress in all the recent Assembly elections 2022, PLC chief Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday hit out at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) for trying to put the blame of their party’s dismal defeat in Punjab on him instead of gracefully admitting to their own blunders.
“The Congress has not only lost in Punjab but also in UP, Uttrakhand, Goa, and Manipur and the Gandhis are entirely to blame for the party’s shameful defeat,” he said, adding that the fact was that the people, across the country, had lost faith in the leadership of the Gandhis.
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Pointing out that many senior leaders within the party were outright blaming the infighting in Punjab Congress and the ‘anti-party’ statements of Navjot Sidhu for the abysmal performance in Punjab, the former chief minister the Congress was comfortably placed in the state till he was sacked to favour certain sycophants.
The party had dug its own grave in the border state the day they decided to back an “unstable” and “pompous” person like Navjot Sidhu, and naming a corrupt man like Charanjit Singh Channi as the chief minister just months before the polls, he said.
The CWC leaders who were claiming that there was a strong “anti-incumbency” against his (Captain Amarinder’s) government had conveniently forgotten that he had won every election for the party since 2017, the last being the civic bodies election in February 2021, just seven months before his unceremonious removal, he pointed out.
“These leaders are just sycophants who are trying to shield the family by shifting blame and closing their eyes to the writing on the wall,” he said, adding that Congress had no future under the present setup.
Captain Amarinder said the real reason for the Congress defeat in Punjab was the failure of the high command to first favour and then fail to reign in people like Navjot Sidhu, who indulged in tarnishing the image of the party for their own personal gains. He said, “in their efforts to discredit me, the party high command joined hands with Navjot and others, and in the process ended up discrediting the party totally”.
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-PTC News
