By way of PTI
CHANDIGARH: Former Punjab minister and senior Congress chief Balbir Singh Sidhu on Sunday stated that the Congress management scripted its personal defeat through giving energy to turncoats and opportunists who had been alien to the Congress, its historical past and tradition.
Reacting to the birthday celebration’s drubbing within the Punjab meeting polls, Sidhu stated, “The decline of the birthday celebration’s potentialities began the day Sunil Jakhar, a dyed-in-wool Congressman, used to be changed through an intruder Navjot Singh Sidhu, who had joined the Congress simply 4 years in the past.”
Announcing that the Congress “dedicated one blunder after any other”, Balbir Sidhu stated doing away with Amarinder Singh as the manager minister proved to be the closing straw that broke the camel’s again which in the end ended in the “whole cave in” of the birthday celebration and the federal government.
Amarinder Singh used to be unseated from the manager minister’s submit closing yr following a sour feud between him and Navjot Singh Sidhu.
In a commentary right here, the previous well being minister stated the birthday celebration’s 3rd mistake used to be refusing to nominate Sunil Jakhar as the manager minister simply because he used to be a Hindu, in spite of the enhance of an vast majority of the birthday celebration MLAs and the secular personality and tradition of the Congress.
“If the Congress had believed in politics of faith, Giani Zail Singh would not be the president, Dr Manmohan Singh would not be the high minister and Buta Singh would not be the house minister,” he stated.
“All this used to be adopted through the appointment of Charanjit Singh Channi, who once more used to be now not an actual Congressman, as he had attempted his good fortune with the Shiromani Akali Dal and the Other folks’s Birthday celebration of Punjab earlier than becoming a member of the Congress. The Congress birthday celebration and the federal government used to be passed over to rank outsiders,” Balbir Sidhu asserted.
He stated the way in which the birthday celebration arbitrarily denied tickets to senior and veteran leaders like Amrik Singh Dhillon, Jagmohan Singh Kang, Ajaib Singh Bhatti and Kewal Singh Dhillon used to be but any other deadly mistake through the Congress management.
“It used to be atypical and unexpected that the birthday celebration regarded find it irresistible used to be in a race with itself in repeating one blunder after any other to reason its personal doom,” he stated.
The 3-time former MLA from Mohali identified that simply earlier than the appointment of Navjot Singh Sidhu because the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president, everybody used to be of the unanimous view that the Congress will repeat itself in 2022.
“However the countdown for doom began the day Navjot Sidhu took over because the PCC president”, he stated, including that the birthday celebration made no efforts to reign him in.
Balbir Sidhu stated the way in which the Punjab Congress leader and the manager minister indulged in open disagreement, striking the birthday celebration in a state of “civil battle”, left the sphere large open for the opposition.
“Other folks were given bored to death with this civil battle they usually made up our minds to show us a lesson,” he stated.
But even so, Balbir Sidhu stated, “The language utilized by Navjot Sidhu and Channi all through the marketing campaign antagonised a big segment of the citizens.”
Whilst Navjot Sidhu allegedly addressed former minister Anil Joshi as a “kaala Brahmin”, Channi allegedly used derogatory language towards the migrant inhabitants.
This antagonised sure communities they usually voted towards the Congress now not handiest in Punjab, but additionally in Uttar Pradesh, he stated.
The previous minister stated as a substitute of proudly owning up duty, the ones accountable had been “shamelessly” glorifying themselves as though they’d gained “Param Vir Chakra”.
He stated the ones accountable for the debacle will have to be made responsible, lest the Congress were given “destroyed past redemption”.
The Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration romped house with 92 of the 117 meeting seats through decimating the Congress and the SAD-BSP mix.