Ashwani Kumar Shreds Congress Over Punjab: “Leadership Worst In 40 Years”

New Delhi:

Former Union Minister Ashwani Kumar, who give up the Congress immediately, gave a scathing evaluation of the occasion management’s dealing with of Punjab, the place it’s wracked by infighting.

“The form of management being projected in Punjab might be the worst within the final 40 years,” Ashwini Kumar instructed NDTV, with out naming both Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi or Punjab Congress chief Navjot Sidhu.

Mr Channi took over as Chief Minister after Amarinder Singh, who had been locked in a dragging feud with Navjot Sidhu, was pressured to resign in September.

“It’s not possible for me to simply accept that caste can grow to be the idea of the selection of Chief Minister within the Congress,” Dr Kumar mentioned, referring to Mr Channi, who’s a Dalit chief.

Noting what he referred to as a “narrowness of strategy unbecoming of the Congress”, Dr Kumar mentioned on Amarinder Singh’s exit: “If you happen to wished Amarinder Singh to go you would have talked to him, you would have requested him. The style during which Amarinder Singh was humiliated into resigning has not left impression of the Congress, not solely in Punjab however the remainder of the nation.”

He added: “I used to be by no means within the interior circle of Amarinder Singh. However I resent and condemn the way in which he was humiliated into resigning.”