PCC's Capt Amarinder Singh under attack from party

After the electoral shock, the Punjab Congress is caught in a blame game even as PCC president Amarinder Singh’s detractors have started training their guns at him.

The resentment has been spreading mostly among senior Congress leaders who lost the election and propose to meet AICC president Sonia Gandhi to “present her a true picture” of the situation in the state.

The leaders have been making no bones about the fact that it was Amarinder’s “casual approach and overconfidence” that cost the Congress its election. They resent that there had been no serious attempt to look into the cause of the party’s debacle and instead the PCC president “had been back to celebrations and indulgence”.

Former cabinet minister Avtar Brar, who lost the election, expressed his anguish at the “hosting of a Holi party by Kapurthala MP Rana Gurjit Singh, in which Amarinder also took part, at a time when the party workers were in a mourning following a self-inflicted defeat”.