Amarinder Singh’s dismissal, and choose its batter Charanjit Singh Channi as Chief Minister of Punjab It was written in Delhi by the Congress high command, which is actually party MP Rahul Gandhi and AICC general secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. They pushed to change guard Just a few months before the next assembly election. Punjab is one of the three states where the party is in power. Party MLAs had turned against Captain Amarinder, but the Gandhi family did not make it clear before that they wanted to oust him. Captain Amarinder, 79, had said about the 2017 assembly election that it was the last election of his career, and that the party should identify his successor before the next elections, which are now due in months. The Gandhi family seems to have taken this very seriously, with Capt Amarinder, as is often the case with those in power, retracted from his words. Captain Amarinder says the reason for his change of mind – now he says his retirement is not imminent – is Gandhi’s choice of Navjot Singh Sidhu as state president of the party, which he considers anti-national and with Pakistanis. Mixed installation. NS Incoming Chief Minister, a Dalit Sikh, and are working together to oust party chief Captain Amarinder.
It is one thing to promote a new leadership in the party and quite another to create trouble in the process. The cost of this change for the Congress will be evident only in the days to come, but it is already clear that getting the party back in fighting shape will be an uphill task. Capt Amarinder is exploring political alternatives outside the Congress. Though it will not be easy for him to create something new, but he can spoil the pitch for the Congress. His absence can in itself be dragged on the feet for the party. Though admittedly inaccessible to common workers and even party leaders, his sense of the pulse of the people in the communally sensitive border state has been crucial to the party. His liberal image, secular outlook and nationalist rhetoric fit well with the Congress. Mr. Sidhu and Mr. Channi are making provocative appeals to Sikh religious grievances in their efforts to defeat the opposition Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the outgoing chief minister. His tendency to make communal appeals, and his volatile nature make Mr. Sidhu a fearsome clown in the Congress pack. If Congress wins, he will claim the chief minister’s post. The Akali Dal is on the backfoot to be part of the central government, when it enacted three agricultural laws against which the state’s farmers are standing, and the BJP being friendless and faceless, the Congress appeared ready to retain power. Perhaps such favorable circumstances encouraged the Gandhi family to win in Punjab. But the SAD could have got a lifeline, and the Aam Aadmi Party could find new hope while the Congress deals with its internal crisis.
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