By way of PTI
CHANDIGARH: Infighting within the Punjab Congress got here out within the open Thursday at a protest assembly when a colleague dared Navjot Singh Sidhu to take names if he felt any individual within the birthday party was once excited by wrongdoing.
The embarrassing scenario for the birthday party arose when Punjab Congress adolescence leader Brinder Singh Dhillon interrupted Sidhu, a former Punjab Congress Committee (PCC) leader, in his speech.
Sidhu was once addressing the Congress leaders and employees all through the protest in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration-led central executive over persevered upward thrust in petrol, diesel, and cooking fuel costs outdoor the Punjab Congress Bhawan right here.
Sidhu spoke about selling other people with blank symbol for the birthday party’s revival within the wake of its decimation within the contemporary Punjab meeting elections.
“I didn’t take any one’s title nor will I do this. ‘Kyonki yeh public jo hai sab jaanti hai’ (for the reason that public is aware of the whole thing),” Sidhu stated cryptically.
He stated it is going to do nobody any just right, in the event that they make a choice to fill their very own coffers.
“Regardless of what number of addresses you ship, not anything will occur,” he stated.
He stated he will be the first one to take a stand if any “false” FIR was once lodged in opposition to any Congress employee.
“But when cash is recovered from any one’s space, I can no longer stand with him,” he stated.
“Kyonki choran naal nahin khadna (It’s not that i am going to fortify the corrupt).”
“I can no longer level a finger at any individual. 100 other people could have spoken in opposition to me however Sidhu by no means spoke in opposition to any Congress employee,” he stated.
Dhillon stood and interrupted Sidhu shouting at him to attract his consideration.
“Sidhu sahab, what you might be doing is improper,” Dhillon stated confronting him.
“Kyon nahi naam laoge, kyon nahin naam laoge (why may not you’re taking names?),” Dhillon requested Sidhu in Punjabi.
“If one thing is improper then name it out, and if one thing is correct then say that too,” he stated, pleading Sidhu to call those that he thinks indulged in corruption.
Dhillon then instructed Sidhu if he was once no longer going to take names then he was once indulging in mere “drama”.
“Phir tusi drama kar rahe ho (then you might be doing a drama),” he stated.
The warmth from his birthday party employee made Sidhu forestall his cope with.
Later, Dhillon via a tweet appealed for team spirit within the birthday party and clarified that his outburst was once no longer in opposition to somebody.
“No combat in opposition to somebody, we will have to no longer be throwing dust at every different because it was once a collective defeat. We now have suffered as a result of infighting and if we don’t path proper, we will be able to be completed. Time to face in combination and combat for public no longer for particular person glorification,” he posted.
A bit of Punjab Congress leaders had been maintaining conferences not too long ago and batting for a key position for Sidhu forward of the most likely announcement of the brand new PPCC leader.
The Congress won a drubbing within the Punjab meeting polls successful simplest 18 seats, because the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration stormed to energy bagging 92 of the 117 meeting segments.
Sidhu was once defeated by way of AAP candidate and political greenhorn Jeevan Jyot Kaur from Amritsar East constituency.
Following the ballot debacle in 5 states — Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Manipur, and Punjab — Congress president Sonia Gandhi had requested the birthday party’s state unit chiefs to position of their papers, and Sidhu, too, tendered his resignation.