Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Friday hit out at the Congress for blaming the anti-incumbency of his four-and-half-years tenure on the poor show in assembly polls, saying the party’s leadership will never learn.
Singh, who was unseated from the post of chief minister last year, tweeted: “The @INCIndia leadership will never learn! Who is responsible for the humiliating defeat of Congress in UP? What about Manipur, Goa, Uttrakhand? The answer is written in BOLD LETTERS on the wall but as always I presume they will avoid reading it”.
Singh’s remarks came a day after Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala said that in Punjab, even though the party presented a humble, clean and grounded leadership, it failed to overcome the anti-incumbency of four-and-half-years of Amarinder Singh government.”The election results of 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 people’s blessings”, Surjewala had said.The Congress was routed in the polls with AAP taking 92 seats in the 117-member assembly, leaving it with only 18 seats. While the Shiromani Akali Dal got three seats, the BJP got two and the BSP just one.
