New Delhi: With the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) registering an impressive victory in the Congress stronghold of Punjab, former chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday launched a vitriolic attack on the grand old party for the “humiliating defeat”.
The former chief minister said that the Congress leadership “will never learn”.
“The @INCIndia leadership will never learn! Who is responsible for the humiliating defeat of Congress in UP? What about Manipur, Goa, Uttrakhand? The answer is written in BOLD LETTERS on the wall but as always I presume they will avoid reading it,” Singh tweeted.
The former chief minister was responding to Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala’s claim that his party lost because of the anti-incumbency of 4.5 years under his rule.
“In Punjab, the Congress presented a new leadership through Charanjit Singh Channi who is son of the soil, but the entire anti-incumbency of 4.5 years under Captain Amarinder Singh could not be overcome and hence people voted for AAP for change,” Surjewala had said yesterday.
Singh, who joined hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the Punjab Assembly elections after launching his own party Punjab Lok Congress post his removal from the top job, lost from the Patiala Urban constituency to AAP’s Ajit Pal Singh Kohli.
The Punjab Lok Congress failed to win any seat in the 117-member Punjab Assembly.
The BJP too failed to perform well and managed to bag just two seats.
Meanwhile, Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu while accepting the verdict said “you reap what you sow”.
“This election was for a change…people took a great decision…public is never wrong…I’m not going into a deep thought of whether people accepted Channi’s face as CM’s candidate or not,” he added, ANI reported.
The AAP won the Punjab Assembly elections with a thumping majority securing 92 seats.
The Congress managed to win just 18 seats.
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) won three seats, while the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Independent won one seat each.