Team News Riveting
Chandigarh, March 11
Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Friday lashed out at the Congress for putting ball in his court for the grand-old party’s humiliating defeat in the recently concluded state elections.
While reacting to party’s poor show in the polls after the results were out Thursday, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said that in Punjab, even though the party presented a humble, clean and grounded leadership, it failed to overcome the anti-incumbency of four-and-half-years of Amarinder Singh government.
The Congress leadership blamed Amarinder Singh’s tenure for the defeat but failed to explain why the anti-incumbency prevailed even after his ouster. Singh was removed as Chief Minister of Punjab after State Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu launched a campaign against him. Singh quit Congress in November, providing sufficient time to Congress for managing the affairs.
“The @INCIndia leadership will never learn! Who is responsible for the humiliating defeat of Congress in UP? What about Manipur, Goa, Uttrakhand? The answer is written in BOLD LETTERS on the wall but as always I presume they will avoid reading it,” Singh tweeted.
The Congress was routed in the polls with AAP taking 92 seats in the 117-member assembly, leaving it with only 18 seats. While the Shiromani Akali Dal got three seats, the BJP got two and the BSP just one.
