New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday dubbed former chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh’s anti-national barb directed at Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu as “serious” and questioned the silence of the grand old party’s top leadership in this regard.
BJP leader Prakash Javadekar asked the opposition party if it will take cognizance of the allegations and take action.
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“Former Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh has called his party’s state chief Navjot Singh Sidhu anti-national. This is a very serious allegation. The BJP is asking only one question to Congress that why Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka are silent on this?” he told a press conference here
Demanding the Congress to speak on this issue, Javadekar said: “They should clarify their role on this issue. The BJP wants to ask whether the Congress party will take any action, cognizance of these serious allegations.”
“Citing the example of the way Sidhu went to Pakistan and hugged its Army Chief (Qamar Javed) Bajwa after the terrorist attack on India, Captain Amarinder has called Sidhu 'anti-national'. The country has seen and the country already had this issue in their mind, yesterday Amarinder Singh made it vocal,” he added, ANI reported.
Captain Amarinder Singh tendered his resignation as the chief minister earlier on Saturday following months of infighting between him and Sidhu.
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Resigning months before the 2022 Punjab Assembly elections, Singh stated that he would oppose any attempt by the Congress to name Sidhu as his replacement while calling him an “anti-national” and “total disaster”.
“Navjot Singh Sidhu is an incompetent man. He is going to be a disaster. I will oppose his name for the next CM face. He has a connection with Pakistan. It will be a threat to national security,” he said.