Amarinder’s outburst rooted in his guilt consciousness: Bajwa

Patiala/Chandigarh, The Punjab Congress President, Mr Partap Singh Bajwa, today hit back at the Deputy Leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party Capt. Amainder Singh saying his outburst against him was rooted in his guilty conscience as his latest anti-party activity was his brazen and unabashed sabotage of the Dhuri Assembly bye-election.

Reacting sharply to Capt Amarinder’s today’s statement wherein he had questioned his locus standi in taking action against him and attacking his as a failed leader, Mr Bajwa said, “I had not taken any name in the news item to which Capt Amarinder Singh has reacted in this vicious style of his. This amounts to admission of his disruptive activities to harm the party repeatedly. His problem is that he is getting hallucinations during the day time. His negativity has further reinforced the perception about him that he is only power hungry”.

Mr Bajwa came down heavily against the former chief minister saying he deliberately, calculatedly and consciously sabotaged the party in the Dhuri Assembly bye-election giving the impression through his actions and statements that the party was vertically divided. This was part of his despicable and perverse thinking as his politics had always been guided by his vested political interests and not that of the Congress.

He alleged Capt Amarinder singh was suffering from selective amnesia forgetting that the Congress had lost every election under his leadership since 2007. He reminded him that in the last Lok Sabha election, his wife Preneet Kaur lost from the home turf of Patiala and that too to a greenhorn like Dr Dharamvira Gandhi of Aam Aadmi Party. He miserably failed to get his son elected from Samana in the last Assembly election, the constituency which was also considered to be the home turf of his family.

Mr Bajwa said he had never sold himself out to the Akali Dal or the Bharatiya Janata Party and had always kept the interests of the party supreme rather than indulging in activities which would benefit the adversaries. He counselled him to sit back and introspect as to who was benefiting from his disrupting activities and statements over the last two years.