Amarinder asks Harish Chaudhary to shut up
Sunday, 15/02/2015
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Chandigarh : Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Captain Amarinder Singh has condemned the AICC Secretary Harish Chaudhary for blaming the party president Sonia Gandhi for the party’s defeat in Delhi Assembly elections, saying he had no locus stand to comment on such matters. “Chaudhary will do us a favour by keeping his mouth shut rather than blaming the party president for the defeat”, he remarked.
In a sharp and strong reaction to Chaudhary saying, during a press conference in Jalandhar on Thursday last, that Gandhi was responsible for the Delhi defeat, Capt Amarinder demanded immediate and unconditional apology from Chaudhary for overstepping his brief.
Chaudhary during a press conference in Jalandhar on Thursday had directly blamed Gandhi for party’s defeat in recently held Delhi elections. “It is strange and surprising that a small time party office bearer who badly lost himself and has virtually little political experience should sit over the judgement and have the audacity to pronounce Sonia Gandhi guilty of Delhi electoral failure”, he said, while wondering what made Chaudhary to pass on such judgments.
The former Chief Minister asserted that such elements like Chaudhary must be firmly disciplined lest they create chaos and confusion in the party. “This is no time to pass on the blame on others, and more so, on the party president Gandhi, who is never involved in decision making affairs at this level”, he observed, while adding, this was rather the time for introspection.
Capt Amarinder said, Chaudhary instead of sitting over the judgement on as senior a leader as Gandhi herself, should better keep his mouth shut. “Party is yet to go for the prognosis on the Delhi elections and here is a man who is rushing in hurry to blame the party president”, he pointed out, while asserting that it was Gandhi’s leadership that pulled the party out of the oblivion and steered the party to two successive victories in 2004 and 2009.
