Sunil Jakhar calls Channi ‘liability’, says ‘his greed pulled Congress down’

Congress chief Sunil Jakhar on Monday slammed occasion management for selecting Charanjit Singh Channi because the chief ministerial candidate for Punjab Meeting polls, labelling him as a “legal responsibility” for the occasion and claiming that his greed led to the disastrous defeat.

Jakhar’s remarks come a day after  Congress Working Committee meet in Delhi to debate the ballot debacle of the grand outdated occasion in all 5 Meeting states.

Within the Punjab Meeting polls, Channi misplaced from each constituencies from the place he had contested, whereas Aam Aadmi Celebration made historical past by profitable 92 seats, which is the one highest variety of seats gained by any occasion since 1966 in Punjab.

Jakhar, in his tweet, additionally took a dig at Rajya Sabha MP Ambika Soni, who had proposed the identify of Channi because the chief minister of Punjab after Captain Amarinder Singh resigned.

Jakhar additionally tweeted an image of Channi with a headline: “ED seizes Rs 10 crore from Channi’s nephew; CM cries foul”.

Later, chatting with ANI, Jakhar stated his tweet was “to not accuse anybody of something”.

“Disappointing to see the type of sycophancy performed out in CWC yesterday. Report suggests sure leaders who’ve been Rajya Sabha MPs for 30 years, declare to be Punjab’s voice in CWC are hoodwinking occasion excessive command,” he advised ANI.

He added: “This suggestion for CM’s publish was finished by these very individuals. As a substitute of acknowledging it, they’re making an attempt to place it on Rahul Gandhi. Individuals of Punjab needed change, however the one who was projected was caught along with his hand within the til. Treatment was worse than illness,” reported News18.

Jakhar, who additionally had chief ministerial ambitions, has been at loggerheads with the senior occasion members for being ignored, regardless of having the assist of a most variety of MLAs.

On Sunday, former Punjab minister and senior occasion chief Balbir Singh Sidhu stated that the Congress management scripted its personal defeat by giving energy to turncoats and opportunists who had been alien to the Congress, its historical past and tradition.

“The decline of the occasion’s prospects began the day Sunil Jakhar, a dyed-in-wool Congressman, was changed by an outsider Navjot Singh Sidhu, who had joined the Congress simply 4 years in the past,” he stated.

Asserting that the Congress “dedicated one blunder after one other”, Balbir Sidhu stated eradicating Amarinder Singh because the chief minister proved to be the final straw that broke the camel’s again which ultimately led to the “full collapse” of the occasion and the federal government.

He stated the way in which the occasion arbitrarily denied tickets to senior and veteran leaders like Amrik Singh Dhillon, Jagmohan Singh Kang, Ajaib Singh Bhatti and Kewal Singh Dhillon was one more deadly mistake by the Congress management.

Balbir Sidhu additionally stated the way in which the Punjab Congress chief and the chief minister indulged in open confrontation, left the sector extensive open for the opposition. “The language utilized by Navjot Sidhu and Channi through the marketing campaign antagonised a big part of the citizens,” he added. Rahul Gandhi had declared Channi as Congress’ chief ministerial candidate on February 6, the identical day Jakhar stop lively electoral politics.

Balbir Sidhu stated these answerable for the debacle have to be made accountable, lest the Congress bought “destroyed past redemption”.

Within the  CWC meet, it was establishment as soon as once more with Sonia Gandhi, the interim president, suggesting that she and her kids, Rahul and Priyanka, had been able to step apart, taking accountability for the defeat of Congress in all 5 states, and the leaders, in flip, urging her to proceed and reaffirming their religion in her management.

With inputs from businesses

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