Gandhis conspired to oust me from Punjab govt: Amarinder Singh

Captain Amarinder Singh. File pic

Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday resigned from the Congress and announced the name of his party - Punjab Lok Congress - just months before the Assembly polls. The move by Singh came days after he dismissed reports of back-end talks with the Congress, saying the time for rapprochement is over. In his seven-page resignation letter, Singh also slammed the Gandhis for a "conspiracy" to oust him from the state government.

In the letter to Sonia Gandhi, Singh said that despite knowing him "for the better part of his 52 years in public life" and "that too at a deeply personal level", she never "understood" him or his "character".

Expressing his anguish over Navjot Singh Sidhu being given the charge of the Punjab Congress chief, he said, "Despite my profound reservations and over the unanimous advice of almost all MPs from Punjab, you chose to appoint an acolyte of the Pakistani deep state Navjot Sidhu who had publicly hugged the Pakistan Army chief Gen Bajwa and Prime Minister Imran Khan. "Khan and Bajwa are the people responsible for sending terrorists across the border to kill Indians," he said.

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