New Delhi: Amarinder Singh declared today that he is not joining the BJP but definitely quitting the Congress, confirming exclusively to media what has been furiously speculated since he was forced to quit as Punjab Chief Minister earlier this month.
“So far I am in the Congress but I will not remain in the Congress. I have already made my position very clear. I will not be treated in this manner,” the Captain said in an interview a day after meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi.
Pulling no punches, the Captain also predicted the Congress’s downfall in Punjab – in the run-up to the polls – and called his rival Navjot Singh Sidhu a “childish man” who had been given a serious job by the party.
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“I have been in politics for 52 years. I have my own beliefs, my own principles. The way I have been treated… At 10.30 am the Congress President says you resign. I didn’t ask any questions. I said I will do it just now. At 4 pm I went to the Governor and resigned… If you doubt me after 50 years and my credibility is at stake… if there is no trust, what is the point of me staying in the party?”
Before quitting on September 18, Amarinder Singh had told Sonia Gandhi that he had been humiliated thrice by the party.
“I have made my stand very clear to the Congress that I will not be treated in this manner. I will not stand for it. I have not resigned from the Congress yet, but how can one continue in a place where there is a trust deficit? When there is no trust, one cannot continue,” he said.
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