{"id":336272,"date":"2022-03-15T02:05:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T07:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=336272"},"modified":"2022-03-15T02:05:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T07:35:36","slug":"capt-amarinder-singh-gandhis-only-responsible-for-congresss-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/capt-amarinder-singh-gandhis-only-responsible-for-congresss-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Capt Amarinder Singh : Gandhis only responsible for Congress\u2019s defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chandigarh:\u00a0<\/strong>Punjab Lok Congress Chief Capt Amarinder Singh yesterday slammed the Congress Working Committee (CWC) for blaming him for the defeat in Punjab. He said Congress should gracefully admit their own blunders . Only Gandhis are responsible for the complete rout of the Congress in all the recent Assembly polls<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Congress has not only lost in Punjab but also in UP, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur and the Gandhis are entirely to be blamed for the party\u2019s shameful defeat, \u201d he said, adding that the fact was that the people, across the country, had lost faith in the leadership of the Gandhis.<\/p>\n

Pointing out that many senior leaders within the party were outrightly blaming the infighting in the Punjab Congress and the \u2018anti-party\u2019 statements of Navjot Sidhu for the abysmal performance in Punjab, the former Chief Minister said the Congress was comfortably placed in the state till he was sacked to favour certain sycophants.<\/p>\n

The party had dug its own grave in the border state the day they decided to back an \u201cunstable\u201d and \u201cpompous\u201d person like Sidhu, and naming a corrupt man like Charanjit Singh Channi as chief minister just months before the polls, he said.<\/p>\n

The CWC leaders who were claiming that there was a strong \u201canti-incumbency\u201d against his (Capt Amarinder\u2019s) government had conveniently forgotten that he had won every election for the party since 2017, the last being the civic bodies election in February 2021, just seven months before his unceremonious removal, he pointed out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese leaders are just sycophants who are trying to shield the family by shifting blame and closing their eyes to the writing on the wall, \u201d he said, adding that the Congress had no future under the present setup.<\/p>\n

Capt Amarinder said the real reason for the party\u2019s defeat in Punjab was the failure of the high command to first favour and then fail to reign in people like Sidhu, who indulged in tarnishing the image of the party for their own personal gains.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIn their efforts to discredit me, the party high command joined hands with Navjot and others, and in the process ended up discrediting the party totally\u201d.<\/p>\n

Capt Amarinder Singh said though he did not owe any explanation to the CWC or the Congress party, he had chosen to react to the comments of these leaders just to clarify his position to the people of Punjab, to whom he still felt accountable.<\/p>\n

Punjab\u2019s former Chief Minister said that he had been sending fortnightly reports on his government\u2019s achievements to AICC acting president, Sonia Gandhi, and not once had she complained on them.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven three weeks before they sacked me, I had offered to quit but Sonia Gandhi had insisted that I stay and lead the party in 2022 elections, \u201d said Capt Amarinder.<\/p>\n

He said the real reason for the Congress defeat in Punjab was the failure of the high command to reign in people like Sidhu, who indulged in tarnishing the image of the party for their own personal gains.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn their efforts to discredit me, the party high command joined hands with Navjot and others, and in the process ended up discrediting the party totally, \u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Chandigarh:\u00a0Punjab Lok Congress Chief Capt Amarinder Singh yesterday slammed the Congress Working Committee (CWC) for blaming him for the defeat in Punjab. He said Congress should gracefully admit their own blunders . Only Gandhis are responsible for the complete rout of the Congress in all the recent Assembly polls \u201cThe Congress has not only lost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":336273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336274,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336272\/revisions\/336274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/336273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}