New Delhi/ Chandigarh: Punjab’s former Chief Minister and Congress veteran Amarinder Singh met National Security Advisor Ajit Doval today, each day after his meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah amid speculations about him joining the BJP. Captain Amarinder Singh, who recently stepped down from chief minister’s post in Punjab, said that in his meeting with Mr Shah he discussed the contentious farm laws and urged the house Minister to repeal the laws and guarantee MSP.
On Tuesday, Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned as Punjab Congress chief, delivering an enormous shock to the Gandhis, who may have hoped that changing Chief Ministers would help end the turmoil within the state before elections early next year In a video message tweeted on Wednesday morning, Mr Sidhu said that he won’t compromise on ethics and would “fight for truth until my last breath.”
“My fight is issue-based and that i have stood by it for an extended time. I cannot compromise with my ethics, my moral authority. What I witness may be a compromise with issues, agenda in Punjab. I cannot misguide the supreme headquarters nor am i able to allow them to be misguided,” Mr Sidhu said in Punjabi In his resignation letter to Sonia Gandhi, the cricketer-turned-politician wrote, “The collapse of a man’s character stems from the compromise corner. I can never compromise on Punjab’s future and therefore the agenda for the welfare of Punjab. Therefore, I hereby resign because the President of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee. i will be able to still serve the Congress.”
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