Former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has congratulated the party leaders, taking a jibe at the Congress. joined BJP And called the move “the tip of the iceberg.”
Former ministers Raj Kumar Verka, Balbir Singh Sidhu, Sunder Sham Arora and Gurpreet Singh Kanger of Grand Old Party as well as former MLA Kewal Dhillon joined the BJP.
“My best wishes to Balbir S Sidhu, Gurpreet S Kangar, Dr Raj Kumar Verka, Sunder Sham Arora and Kewal Singh Dhillon for taking steps in the right direction and joining BJP today. This is just the tip of the iceberg,” Amarinder Singh said in a tweet.
My best wishes to Balbir S Sidhu, Gurpreet S Kangar, Dr Raj Kumar Verka, Sunder Sham Arora and Kewal Singh Dhillon for taking steps in the right direction and joining @BJP4India today.
This is just the tip of the iceberg!
— Captain Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) 4 June 2022
His cryptic tweet is being seen as a sign of a greater chance of being kicked out of the grand old party.
The exit of five Congress leaders comes days after former Punjab chief Sunil Jakhar also joined the BJP. Jakhar was inducted into the BJP on May 19 in the presence of the party’s national president JP Nadda.
The Congress was voted out of power in the Punjab Assembly elections earlier this year. Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, which was the second largest party in the state, got a thumping majority in the state.
Captain Amarinder Singh had quit the Congress last year after stepping down from the chief minister’s post. Singh then left the Congress and formed his own party months before the Punjab elections.
Singh has since been critical of the Gandhi family and blamed them for the party’s defeat in the assembly elections.
Balbir Sidhu is a three-time MLA from Mohali, and he was the health minister in the previous Congress-led cabinet. Kangar, who was a three-time MLA from Rampura Phool, was the revenue minister. Verka, a prominent Dalit leader from Majha region, was also a three-time MLA and minister of social justice and minorities. Meanwhile, Arora, a former MLA from Hoshiarpur, was the Minister of Industries and Commerce. All the four former Congress ministers lost the recently held Punjab Assembly elections.
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