Punjab Polls 2022: Captain Amarinder Singh To Contest Election From Home Ground Patiala

In a Facebook post on his page, Punjab Da Captain, it was posted that Captain Amarinder Singh will contest the 2022 Punjab Assembly Election from Patiala.

Captain Amarinder Singh To Contest Election From Patiala | File Image

New Delhi: Former Punjab Chief Minister has announced that he will be contesting the upcoming Punjab Assembly elections from his home ground, Patiala. In a Facebook post on his page, Punjab Da Captain, the information was posted.  

After differences erupted between Captain Amarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu, and following Sidhu’s ascension as Congress State President, Amarinder had stepped down saying that he was “humiliated” by the party. 

He then wrote a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, informing about his resignation. In his letter that he posted on Twitter, Amarinder wrote, “I actually felt deeply hurt by your conduct and that of your children who I still deeply love as much as my own children, having known their father, since we were in school together since 1954, which is for 67 years now."

He had expressed his displeasure over appointing Sidhu as the president of the Congress committee. “Despite my profound reservations and over the unanimous advice of almost all the MPs from Punjab, you chose to appoint an acolyte of the Pakistani deep state Navjyot Singh Sindhu who had publicly hugged the Pakistan Army Chief Gen Bajwa and Prime Minister Imran Khan, as the President of the Punjab Congress Committee,” he further wrote in his letter. 

In the same tweet, he announced the launching of his new party, ‘Punjab Lok Congress’, and declared that the party will contest elections on all the seats in the 2022 Punjab Assembly elections. 

Singh had welcomed the decision by the Centre to repeal the three contentious farm laws. He had thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for rolling back the farm laws.