Will fight hard against Navjot Sidhu, will ensure defeat: Amarinder Singh

An unreliable Captain Amarinder Singh announced on Wednesday that he would fight for Navjot Singh Sidhu’s promotion to Punjab Chief Minister and is ready to make any sacrifice to save the country from such a dangerous man, his office said on Wednesday. .

Even as Amarinder Singh reiterated his intention to counter any move to make Sidhu the CM face of the state, he said he would be a strong candidate against him in the 2022 assembly polls to ensure his defeat. Will stand According to Captain Amarinder Singh’s office, the former chief minister said, “He is dangerous for the state.”

In a statement, it was revealed that Capt revealed that he had offered his resignation to Sonia Gandhi 3 weeks ago, but she had asked him to continue.

“If he had called me and asked me to step down, I would have,” he said, “as a soldier, I know how to do my job and quit once called back. Is.”

“Priyanka and Rahul (Gandhi siblings) are like my children… it should not have ended like this. I am hurt.” He said that Gandhi’s children were quite inexperienced and that their advisors were clearly misleading them, Captain Amarinder Singh added.

Bitter internal strife led the Congress party to the polls. At the center of the crisis were cricketer-turned-politician and Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Navjot Singh Sidhu and former CM Captain Amarinder Singh, who were publicly trading on each other.

The struggle in the Punjab unit of the Congress reached such an extent that it became impossible for Amarinder Singh to proceed. He finally resigned on Saturday.

In a letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Amarinder Singh referred to his personal anguish over the political developments in the last five months and feared that the move by the high command could lead to instability in the state. Singh said he was resigning because he felt humiliated

Once in the driver’s seat to retain power in the upcoming elections, recent developments have left analysts divided and they are mixed on the Congress’s prospects going forward. Some say the Congress’s Dalit choice is aimed at keeping Sidhu in check and negate the impact of Amarinder Singh’s resignation. Others see this as a major setback for the party and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is benefiting at its own expense.

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