Sidhu says Cong needs to reinvent itself backs honest man Mann in fighting mafia
Chandigarh Apr 22 PTI Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday said the party lost the Punjab elections because of the mafia raj that prevailed in the state and it now needed to reinvent itself while praising Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann as a younger brother and an honest man He said he will support Mann whose Aam Aadmi Party trounced the Congress in the recent assembly polls if he fights against the mafia He is an honest man Sidhu told reporters at the sidelines of an event where Amrinder Singh Raja Warring took charge as the state Congress president Sidhu had resigned from the same post after the partys defeat in the Punjab elections The Congress has to reinvent itself the former cricketer said I did not speak earlier but everybody has a right to speak and I say today that the Congress lost because of the five-year rule of the mafia raj he added Sidhu said he has always fought against the mafia Though he did not elaborate Sidhu has in the past criticised his own Congress government in the state over alleged mafias in sand-mining transport and cable TV sectors My fight was not against any individual It was against the system and against some persons who were eating into the state like termites he said He said his fight is for Punjabs existence and not for any post Till the time politics remain a business it will not be respected he said When Punjab becomes mafia-free the state will rise Sidhu said he considered Mann his younger brother whom will support in the fight against the mafia He is an honest man I have never raised a finger at him If he fights against it my support is with him even rising above party lines because it is a fight for Punjabs existence In a tweet later he said The Congress will have to reinvent to come back to power Honest faces with moral authority and integrity will be the propellers We are fighting a battle of existence for this great state Its either the Mafia or Honest people he tweeted For months before the elections Sidhu had been questioning the leadership of the then chief minister Amarinder Singh He also directed barbs at Charanjit Singh Channi who took over as the CM ahead of the elections The AAP stormed to power after winning 92 seats out of 117 while the Congress got just 18 Following the partys drubbing in the five states that went to polls earlier this year Congress chief Sonia Gandhi had asked the party chiefs there to resign PTI CHS SUN VSD ASH ASH
Chandigarh Apr 22 PTI Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday said the party lost the Punjab elections because of the mafia raj that prevailed in the state and it now needed to reinvent itself while praising Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann as a younger brother and an honest man He said he will support Mann whose Aam Aadmi Party trounced the Congress in the recent assembly polls if he fights against the mafia He is an honest man Sidhu told reporters at the sidelines of an event where Amrinder Singh Raja Warring took charge as the state Congress president Sidhu had resigned from the same post after the partys defeat in the Punjab elections The Congress has to reinvent itself the former cricketer said I did not speak earlier but everybody has a right to speak and I say today that the Congress lost because of the five-year rule of the mafia raj he added Sidhu said he has always fought against the mafia Though he did not elaborate Sidhu has in the past criticised his own Congress government in the state over alleged mafias in sand-mining transport and cable TV sectors My fight was not against any individual It was against the system and against some persons who were eating into the state like termites he said He said his fight is for Punjabs existence and not for any post Till the time politics remain a business it will not be respected he said When Punjab becomes mafia-free the state will rise Sidhu said he considered Mann his younger brother whom will support in the fight against the mafia He is an honest man I have never raised a finger at him If he fights against it my support is with him even rising above party lines because it is a fight for Punjabs existence In a tweet later he said The Congress will have to reinvent to come back to power Honest faces with moral authority and integrity will be the propellers We are fighting a battle of existence for this great state Its either the Mafia or Honest people he tweeted For months before the elections Sidhu had been questioning the leadership of the then chief minister Amarinder Singh He also directed barbs at Charanjit Singh Channi who took over as the CM ahead of the elections The AAP stormed to power after winning 92 seats out of 117 while the Congress got just 18 Following the partys drubbing in the five states that went to polls earlier this year Congress chief Sonia Gandhi had asked the party chiefs there to resign PTI CHS SUN VSD ASH ASH
