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Chandigarh, Maintaining that there was nothing for the Akalis to boast about the Dhuri bye-election result, Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today said at the same time a leader should also have moral courage to own the responsibility for the consequences.
Reacting to PCC president Bajwa blaming him for the defeat, the former Chief Minister asked, “what is he (Bajwa) there for if I am to be blamed for everything?” He said, it was Bajwa who first asserted that he did not need big faces like him to campaign in Dhuri and now he was running away from the responsibility and trying to put the blame somewhere else.
“It is strange that instead of questioning the misuse of official machinery by the ruling Akali Dal, Bajwa is trying to blame me”, he pointed out, while asking, does he mean to bail Akalis out for all their sins of omission and commission they committed during the campaign.
Referring to Bajwa’s charge that he went away with all the MLAs, Capt Amarinder asked him better to introspect as what was actually wrong with him and why he was not able to carry along anyone. “Your candid admission that the MLAs, like other leaders, are not prepared to listen to you should be enough reason for you to introspect instead of blaming others”, he told Bajwa.
The former Chief Minister said, first Bajwa did not want him to campaign and then he himself did not get serious about the campaigning as he never stayed put in Dhuri. “At best it was a half hearted campaign by Bajwa”, he remarked while referring to his frequent jaunts to Delhi, Chandigarh and other places while leaving the battlefield open.
