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Punjab, Nov 2: Former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh resigned from the Congress Party and announced a new party ‘Punjab Lok Congress’ ahead of Punjab Assembly elections.
In a letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Singh said, “Despite my profound reservations and over the unanimous advice of almost all the MPs from Punjab, you chose to appoint an acolyte of the Pakistani deep state Navjyot Singh Sindhu who had publicly hugged the Pakistan Army Chief Gen Bajwa and Prime Minister Imran Khan, as the President of the Punjab Congress Committee.”
He also accused Sonia Gandhi of having “turned a blind eye” to the “shenanigans of this gentleman who was aided and abetted by the General Secretary In-charge Harish Rawat, perhaps the most dubious individual I had the occasion to make acquaintance with”.
— Capt.Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) November 2, 2021
“The thing is that this is the third time the party called the MLAs. You have an element of doubt on me… I feel humiliated,” said Amarinder Singh outside the Punjab Raj Bhawan after submitting his resignation to Governor Banwarilal Purohit.
Notably, Singh had resigned in September as the Chief Minister and had announced that he will be quitting the Congress after months of a rift with Congress state chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.
