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New Delhi, Jan 18: Manpreet Singh Badal, a leader in the Punjab Congress and a former finance minister, left the party on Wednesday and accused the leadership of inciting factionalism.
Manpreet Badal said in a letter to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi that a group of guys in Delhi are in charge of affairs in Punjab and have only fueled factionalism. He has left the Congress party’s primary membership and will now join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
“Suffice it to say, that the manner in which the Congress party has conducted its affairs and taken decisions, specifically with regards to Punjab, has been disheartening, to say the least. The coterie of men entrusted with the authority to dictate Delhi’s writ to the Punjab unit of the Congress is far from sound,” he wrote in the letter.
“Instead of striving to reduce internal disagreement in an already divided house, these men acted to further increase factionalism, and almost as a matter of policy strengthened the very worst elements within the party,” he added.
— Manpreet Singh Badal (@MSBADAL) January 18, 2023
The leader further mentioned in the letter that he had received harsh criticism within the Punjab Congress for not exhibiting what could only be called financial irresponsibility.
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Manpreet Badal, the nephew of the former chief minister of Punjab Prakash Singh Badal, has served as the state’s finance minister twice and as an MLA five times. Many Punjab Congress officials were disappointed by Badal’s repeated absence from Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra in Punjab. According to reports, he did not get along well with PCC leader Amarinder Singh Raja Warring.
He founded his own party, the People’s Party of Punjab, and then merged it with Congress after being ejected from the Akali Dal.
