Tribune Web Desk
Chandigarh, September 30
“Leaving the Congress, but not joining the BJP”, is what former Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh said on Thursday dismissed all rumours of him joining the saffron party. What followed, soo after, was him dropping the party’s name from his Twitter bio.
His Twitter bio read: “Army Veteran. Former Chief Minister of Punjab. Continuing to Serve the State (sic)”.
This afternoon, Capt declared that he will quit the Congress, over a week after he stepped down as Punjab’s Chief Minister amid escalating indifferences with Navjot Singh Sidhu.
Amarinder said that the Congress was going downhill with senior leaders being completely sidelined and he felt “humiliated” with the way the party treated him, adding that: “Sidhu is a mere crowd-puller, does not know how to carry team along”.
Earlier in the day, Amarinder met National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and, on Wednesday, he had met Home Minister Amit Shah setting the stage for new political equations in Punjab and people guessing.
'Humiliated' Capt Amarinder drops Congress from Twitter Bio after saying he'll quit party
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