Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 23
In a major rebuff to former Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh the Congress on Thursday said it had no comments if someone wanted to leave the party.
“There is no place for anger, jealousy, envy, personal comments or a sense of revenge in politics,” the Congress said today reacting to Singh’s comments yesterday that he would not let Navjot Singh Sidhu become chief minister of Punjab at any cost and would field a strong candidate against him.
Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate, considered close to Priyanka Vadra on Thursday said hopefully Singh would reconsider his remarks in the light of the fact that the “Congress made him CM for 9.9 years.”
Shrinate said the Congress was fighting an ideological war and will stand by those who want to fight this way.
“If he wants to leave, I have no comments on that,” Shrinate said, in a rare public rebuff to any party veteran.
After Shrinate said there was no place for anger in politics, Singh responded through media adviser Raveen Thukral and said there was no place was anger but there was place for humiliation in the Congress.
“Yes, there’s no space for anger in politics. But is there space for humiliation amp; insult in a grand old party like @INCIndia? If a senior party leader like me can be treated like this, I wonder what the workers must go through!'”
Yes, there’s no space for anger in politics. But is there space for humiliation amp; insult in a grand old party like @INCIndia? If a senior party leader like me can be treated like this, I wonder what the workers must go through!’: @capt_amarinder to @SupriyaShrinate https://t.co/deEDRYlBMg
— Raveen Thukral (@RT_Media_Capt) September 23, 2021
Capt Amarinder had yesterday called Gandhi siblings inexperienced and misguided.
No comment if Capt wants to leave, says Congress; Punjab ex-CM says this isn't the way to treat senior leaders
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