The SAD today hit back at the Congress ,ridiculing the PPCC president Mr. Partap Singh Bajwa for categorically conceding that Congress vice president, Mr. Rahul Gandhi was the only “safe” candidate against SAD MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal. “But why has he himself chickened out of contest, showed lack of courage even to draw their Prime Ministerial candidate out of his (Rahul’s) home constituency.” “ Of course, we are amused that Mr. Bajwa has himself refused to counter-challenge Ms Harsimrat for a fight in Punjab against him and has instead thrown his party’s biggest leader in the ring to face Harsimrat Badal.”
“And by insisting that Rahul Gandhi can contest only from Amethi,the PPCC president has further admitted that their Prime ministerial candidate lacks national or even a state-wide appeal,” said Mr. Harcharan Bains, Advisor to Chief Minister on National Affairs and Media. Mr. Bains, who also handles the party’s media , said that by refusing to counter challenge Ms. Badal, “Mr. Bajwa has betrayed his panic and conceded that he himself had neither the capacity nor the nerve even to counter-challenge Ms. Badal for fight in Punjab. “
Bains further said , “By asking Ms. Badal to travel to UP to contest from Rahul’s home constituency, Mr. Bajwa has conceded that Ms. Badal is totally invincible in Punjab and even Rahul had no chance against her here. That is why Mr. Bajwa, who not only belongs to Punjab but is also the president of his party’s state unit, has not shown the courage to challenged Ms. Badal to a fight on any constituency in Punjab and had insisted on her travelling to UP, and that to only to Amethi , clearly conceding that even in UP, Rahul was not confident on any seat other than Amethi. He said that Mr. Bajwa’s statement was a welcome sign that the Congress has finally swallowed the bitter pill of political ground reality about utter helplessness across the country. “But I am not sure how Mr. Rahul Gandhi is going to take to Mr. Bajwa’s admission that only Mr. Rahul Gandhi could take on Harsimrat Kaur, and that for that too, Rahul would would need the security and protection of his home constituency.Rahul Gandhi after all is being projected as the Congress’national leader and yet even Mr. Bajwa lacks courage and faith in
Rahul putting up a fight against Ms Badal from anywhere in the country except his own home. If Mr. Bajwa had been confident about the stature of his leader, he would have dared Ms Badal to contest against their PM candidate from “any constituency in the country. After all, a Prime Ministerial candidate must enjoy the trust and confidence of the
entire country and is supposed to have following even outside his home base.
“But we have always said that he is tied to some apron strings and dare not venture out of home for fear of being thrashed. Mr. Bajwa has just admitted this much. And they are talking about pitching him against stalwart like Narendar Modi!” said Mr. Bains Mr. Bains said that somebody should have told Mr. Bajwa and Mr. Rahul Gandhi that even Mrs. India Gandhi had once showed courage to leave Rai Barelly and Amethi and had gone on to contest from Chicmagaloor in Karnataka. But clearly, Bajwas knows that times have changed for the Congress. “