Chandigarh: Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today said that former PCC president Sunil Jakhar joining the Bharatiya Janata Party was not unexpected as he was playing in the BJP hands for a long time. “Mr Jakhar started working for the BJP much before, while still being in the Congress and today’s joining was just a formality”, Warring said in a statement issued here today.
At the same time he said, the Congress party will emerge stronger than ever as no individual is bigger than the party. “If anyone thinks that Congress will get weakened, he is badly mistaken”, he said, while remarking, “many leaders come and many leaders go, but the party remains strong and steadfast and it will always remain so”. The PCC president said Jakhar had caused maximum damage to the party by parroting the ‘Hindutva’ agenda of the BJP during the 2022 assembly elections.
“Otherwise there was no reason for him to rake up the ‘Hindu’ issue during the elections and he only raked it up to help the BJP”, he said. Warring alleged that Mr Jakhar had not only let down the Congress, but had also betrayed his own secular legacy which he was so proudly harping on till the recent past. “Not just the Congress party, but people of Punjab would like to ask Jakhar Sahab as to what happened to his secular beliefs he would cherish until the recent past?” he asked Jakhar.
He alleged that not only had the former PCC president raked up the communal issue, he had also damaged the party by making undignified remarks against another party colleague which also cost the party dearly in the elections. “We were all surprised as to why Jakhar Sahab was speaking like that, but now the cat is out of the bag and we have got the answers as to what was the reason behind his sustained and persistent campaign against the party that groomed three generations of his family”, he said.
One word, he added, “Jakhar Sahab should reflect and ask what he gave to the Congress party in 50 years and what it cost to the party as several senior leaders left the party just because of him”.
