Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today said that the Congress will fight the ensuing elections in the state under the leadership of the party president Mallikarjun Kharge and the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi. Replying to a question as under whose leadership the party will fight the Punjab assembly elections, Warring said that the party will fight under the leadership of Kharge and Rahul and there is no doubt about that.
Asked about his role, he said, he has always been a worker of the party and will always serve the party as a worker. Asserting that the Congress was in a commanding position in the state, he said, the writing is on the wall that the next government will be of the Congress and it is the goal of every Congressman in the state and everyone is committed to this goal.
On the issue of the sacrilege and Behbal Kallan police firing which left two people dead, Warring questioned the inertia and inaction of the AAP government led by Bhagwant Singh Mann. He wondered why the government was not taking any action despite passage of four and a half years and the admission of guilt by Sukhbir Singh Badal, who was the home minister that time, in front of the Akal Takhat.
To another question on the AAP leadership describing the Akalis and the BJP as the ‘chitta party’ and the ‘ED-party’, he said, the BJP was undoubtedly misusing the agencies against the opposition leaders across the country, but the AAP was no less, as it was misusing the Vigilance Department against its political opponents in Punjab. “While the BJP is the ED-party, the AAP is the Vigilance-Party”, he remarked.
On union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu, Warring said he had already lost his relevance in Punjab, noting that he was no longer going to be the Rajya Sabha MP and may soon lose his ministry also. He said, it was the Congress only, which respected and ensured the relevance of leaders, which Bittu must have realized by now.