Former Chief Minister of Punjab Captain Amarinder Singh who resigned from the Indian National Congress on Tuesday (November 2) called Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu as “an acolyte of Pakistani deep state”.
In his resignation letter that he wrote to long term Congress Party Interim President Sonia Gandhi, he said, “Despite my profound reservations and over the unanimous advice of almost all the MPs from Punjab, you chose to appoint an acolyte of Pakistani deep state Navjot Singh Sidhu who had publicly hugged the Pakistan Army Chief Gen Bajwa and Prime Minister Imran Khan, as the President of the Punjab Congress Committee.”
He further said, “Sidhu’s only claim to fame was that he would abuse me and my government on a regular basis. I am old enough to be his father but that did not stop him from using the filthiest and most vile language against me both publicly and privately.”
Singh also claimed that Sidhu was “patronised by Rahul and Priyanka” while Sonia Gandhi “chose to turn to a blind eye to the shenanigans of the gentleman”. He then dragged General Secretary in-charge Harish Rawat and said both Rawat and Sidhu aided and abetted in this crisis
The former CM also said, “I had told you at that time also that Sidhu is a person of an unstable mind and you will one day regret this decision and it would be too late by then. I am sure you must be regretting it now.”
Singh also said, “When you chose to appoint a person who had been with the BJP for 14 years as PPCC President, I thought to myself where has the Congress come to. However, his appointment was only a continuum given that Nana Patole from the BJP and Revnath Reddy from the RSS had earlier been appointed as Presidents of Maharashtra and Telangana respectively.”
Captain Amarinder Singh who had resigned from the Congress party also announced the name of his new party-Punjab Lok Congress, just months ahead of the Punjab Assembly election with the possibility of an electoral tie-up with the BJP.
Singh had resigned in September as the chief minister after the Congress high command succumbed to the demand of Congress state chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.
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