Punjab Congress’ former president and senior leader Sunil Jakhar on Thursday came down heavily on his successor Navjot Singh Sidhu accusing him of trying to “undermine” the authority of a Chief Minister. At the same time, Jakhar urged the party high command to “put its foot down and clear the air”.
Taking to micro-blogging website, Twitter, Jakhar virtually rebuked Sidhu by saying “enough is enough”.
“Enough is enough. Put an end to attempts to undermine the authority of CM time and again. Aspersions being cast on selection of AG & DGP is actually questioning the integrity/competence of CM and Home Minister to deliver results. It’s time to put the foot down and clear the air,” said Jakhar in a hard-hitting tweet that came minutes after Sidhu’s tweet informing about his scheduled meeting with the Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi at Chandigarh.
Jakhar, a senior party leader in Punjab who at one point of time was tipped to be the Chief Minister to fill the space after Capt Amarinder Singh’s resignation from the apex post, has all along been vocal in party affairs.
Jakhar did not spare Amarinder also from his attack. Taking a dig at Amarinder for his meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Jakhar quipped “Capt must have had some compulsions”.
Tweeting an old picture of Amarinder and Shah, Jakhar captioned it with a Bashir Badr quote, “Kuchh toh majbooriyan rahi hongi, yun hi koi bewafa nahi hota.”
Notably, Jakhar had also lashed out at Sidhu for his sudden resignation by reminding the cricketer-turned-politician that it was not a cricket, and his decision amounted to “breach of trust”.
Hitting out, Jakhar had tweeted that Sidhu has compromised the “faith” reposed in him by the Congress high command, and no amount of grandstanding can justify this breach of trust.
“It’s just not cricket! What stands compromised in this entire ‘episode’ is the faith reposed in the (outgoing?) PPC president by the Congress Leadership. No amount of grandstanding can justify this breach of trust placing his benefactors in a peculiar predicament,” he tweeted.
