Former Chief Minister of Punjab, Captain Amarinder Singh lost to AAP candidate Ajit Pal Singh Kohli in the 2022 assembly elections. Singh served as the CM of Punjab from 2002 to 2007 and again from March 2017 to 2019. The Congress party had won in 2017. State assembly elections under his leadership. However, he resigned in 2019 after months of infighting in the Punjab Congress and repeated attacks on the leader of Navjot Singh Sidhu. After this he formed a part of himself under the name Punjab Lok Congress.
Singh told a press conference that he felt “humiliated” by the fact that the CLP meeting was called for the third time, and the leadership did not trust him.
The Rise and Fall of Captain Amarinder Singh
Amarinder Singh became an MP for the first time in 1980 and joined talks to resolve the issue of Punjab. However, Operation Blue Star happened and Singh resigned from the party and Parliament despite being close friends of the Gandhi family. Operation Blue Star in 1984 and Bargari sacrilege waged war against the Congress and the SAD respectively in a year, but it was Captain Amarinder Singh who emerged as a major leader after his exit after these two incidents.
Then, he moved to the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and became a minister in the government of Surjit Singh Barnala in 1985. He resigned from the cabinet seven months later when the police entered the Darbar Sahib on Barnala’s orders. This move inspired Amarinder to emerge as a Sikh leader. The move worked for Amarinder and helped propel him to the CM’s chair later in 2017.
Reports suggest that it was only because of Amarinder’s acceptance among Sikhs that helped revive the Congress in Punjab since 1999. The party had become untouchable for the Sikhs, a fact which was evident in the general elections of 1996 and 1998 and the assembly elections of 1997. But Amarinder became a factor in the revival of the Congress in Punjab. Though the party lost the 2007 and 2012 assembly elections under Captain’s command, he did not lose his charisma.
In 2014, during the Lok Sabha elections, he contested against top BJP leader Arun Jaitley from Amritsar. Although the Congress suffered a defeat with the least number of seats, Amarinder Singh won the election and also managed to take over the position of the party’s state president from Pratap Singh Bajwa.
In the 2017 assembly elections, the ruling Akali Dal had fallen to the third position. The Congress won a majority, with most of the seats coming from Sikh-dominated rural areas.
However, it was headed for its downfall when he openly criticized the opening of the corridor to Kartarpur Sahib. Following his resignation, following a tussle with Navjot Singh, he expressed further skepticism when he said that he would soon announce the launch of his own political party, adding that he would join the BJP for the 2022 Punjab Assembly elections. Ready to combine. ,
A month ago, Amarinder had resigned from the top post citing “insult” after a power struggle with Punjab MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu, who was appointed as the state Congress president.
This was a major blow to his political image as the farmers’ protest against the BJP in 2021 was supported by a majority of the general public in Punjab.
Moreover, in January this year, the former Punjab CM had said that the BJP was the only party that could take care of the state’s security and economic challenges and slammed the Congress and AAP for making election promises that were not fulfilled. can go.
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