‘Left SAD as they do not deserve me’

March 15, 2019 11:09 pm | Updated 11:09 pm IST - Chandigarh

Former Army Chief General Joginder Jaswant Singh said on Friday that he had left the Shiromani Akali Dal because they did not deserve him. General Singh had quit the SAD last year and recently joined the SAD (Taksali), a breakaway faction of the former.

“I left Akali Dal because they do not deserve me. It is not that they told me to go. I told them (Badals) that I cannot be with you,” he told reporters here.

The former Army Chief had joined the SAD in 2017 and had unsuccessfully contested against Chief Minister Amarinder Singh from Patiala during the Assembly election that year.

General Singh, who became the first Sikh to be appointed as the Army chief in 2005, accused both the SAD and the Congress of defeating him by hatching a conspiracy. “A political game was played against me,” he said.

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