Sidhu Has No Brains, Totally Incompetent: Ex-Punjab CM Amarinder

Mumbai: Former Punjab CM Amarinder Singh on Sunday criticised state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, saying, “From day one, I’ve said the man (Sidhu) has no brains.”

Speaking to reporters after his party announced the first list of Punjab Lok Congress candidates from 22 constituencies, Singh also alleged that Sidhu had made allegations against Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and some other Congress leaders out of his “sense of loyalty to the party” despite getting inputs of their involvement in illegal sand mining in the state.

News agency PTI said, “When the Congress chief asked me (five years ago) to investigate Sidhu, I had said that this person is absolutely unfit to be a member of the Congress party. Yet they went ahead and inducted him.”

Amarinder Singh said, “From day one, I have said that man does not have a brain. He is just a waste of time. I told all this to the Congress President when he asked me how he would suit us (party). ”

“Sidhu was the only minister I dropped because he was totally incompetent. He did not clear and handle his files.”

Amarinder Singh, who broke ties with Congress last year after a bitter feud with Navjot Sidhu, claimed that the Punjab Congress chief did not act against Channi in the #MeToo case as the woman IAS officer did not pursue her complaint, PTI further reported.

Asked if he had said he would fight against Sidhu, Singh said, “I had said we will not allow him to win. Because he is a totally incompetent man”.

He recalled how Sindhu once told him in Delhi that he does meditation daily for six hours and he wondered if he was a stable person.

(With PTI Inputs)

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