Chandigarh, March 11
Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Friday hit out at the Congress for attributing the anti-incumbency wave of his four-and-a-half-year term to its poor performance in the assembly polls, saying the party’s leadership will never learn.
Singh, who was undefeated as chief minister last year, tweeted: “@INCIndia leadership will never learn! Who is responsible for the shameful defeat of Congress in UP? What about Manipur, Goa, Uttarakhand? The answer is written in capital letters on the wall but as always I think they will avoid reading it.
@INCIndia Leadership will never learn!
Who is responsible for the shameful defeat of Congress in UP? What about Manipur, Goa, Uttarakhand?
The answer is written in capital letters on the wall but as always I think they will avoid reading it. https://t.co/Dp646fwQgR
— Captain Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) 11 March 2022
Singh’s remarks came a day after Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala said that in Punjab, even though the party has presented a humble, clean and grassroots leadership, it is against the four-and-a-half-year anti-incumbency wave of the Amarinder Singh government. failed to remove.
Surjewala said, “The election results in five states are against the party’s expectations. We were expecting good results in Uttarakhand, Goa and Punjab, but we accept that we failed to get the blessings of the people.”
The Congress lost the election with 92 seats in the 117-member assembly, along with AAP, leaving it with only 18 seats. While Shiromani Akali Dal got three seats, BJP got two and BSP got only one seat.