Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh on Friday hit out at Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Aam Aadmi Party leaders for celebrating Congress’ poll debacle in five States and said they should rather worry about their own parties.
Reacting to Mr. Badal’s statement that the results in five States were the “last rites” of the Congress, Capt. Singh retorted: “The people of Punjab have already performed the last rites of your (Badal’s) party (Akali Dal) and the government in the last year ... and the first death anniversary will be observed in February 2017”.
Punjab is slated to go to polls in February next year.
The PCC president took a jibe at Mr. Badal for seeking consolation from the victory of the Trinamool Congress and the AIADMK in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.
“You don’t win elections by quoting examples of other parties from other states and drawing strong parallels as people will check your own balance sheet, where you have nothing to claim credit for,” he told the Chief Minister.
Responding to the AAP leader Sanjay Singh’s “jubilations” over the election results in the States, Capt. Singh questioned his locus standi since the AAP had not contested even a single seat in these States. It is a classic ca e of trying to fish in the troubled waters,” he remarked about the AAP. PTI
