Amarinder Singh resigned from the Congress today (File)
New Delhi:
Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today submitted his resignation to the Congress, raising several questions and allegations against the party and its individual leaders – party chief Sonia Gandhi, her son and daughter. Uploading the seven-page letter on Twitter, the 78-year-old announced that his new party would be called “Punjab Lok Congress”.
In the letter, former chief ministers associated with the Congress for decades – Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra – said instead of reining in Navjot Sidhu, “an unstable man” and “a retainer of the Pakistani deep state” patronized him.
He also said that Mrs Gandhi had “turned a blind eye” to the “shenanigans” of this gentleman, who was aided and abetted by the general secretary in charge, Harish Rawat, perhaps the most suspicious person I had the opportunity to acquaint with (sic) “.
Referring to the legislature party meeting called on Twitter, he said he understood that “their intention was to humiliate and humiliate him”. The next morning, Mrs Gandhi called him and asked for his resignation from the top post, he wrote.
“You probably thought that if this Third World emergency circus that happened in June 1975 had not been implemented, I would have taken the legislators to a resort … despite knowing me for the better part of my 52 years in public life And that too on a deeply personal level you never understood me or my character. You thought I was moving for years and should be put to pasture,” his letter read.
Invoking Rajiv Gandhi, he wrote that he felt “deeply hurt by the behavior of you and your children, whom I still love as much as my children, knowing my father, since we Were in school together since 1954, which is now 67 years. During the last few months, through this exercise, I hope that no other senior Congressman will be subjected to the humiliation that I had suffered.
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