BJP leader Amarinder Singh calls BJP ‘rigid,’ praises Congress’s flexibility

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Captain Amarinder Singh. File

Captain Amarinder Singh. File | Photo Credit: PTI

Congress party’s erstwhile person and astatine contiguous subordinate of Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) nationalist executive, Amarinder Singh, connected Friday (December 12, 2025) asserted that helium finds the BJP rigid successful its approach, adjacent arsenic the Congress enactment is much flexible and has a consultative outlook.

Captain Amarinder, who remained Punjab’s Chief Minister doubly during the Congress regime, joined the BJP successful 2022 aft merging his party, the Punjab Lok Congress (PLC). He near the Indian National Congress successful 2021 connected the pretext that helium was wounded by behaviour of the enactment person Sonia Gandhi and her children – Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra Gandhi.

Mr. Singh’s latest remark, coming up of the Assembly predetermination successful Punjab, which is owed successful aboriginal 2027, is seen arsenic politically important arsenic the BJP continues to marque efforts to found itself arsenic a important governmental unit successful Punjab.

Talking to prime media, Mr. Singh said “..Punjab is simply a antithetic area. Look astatine it, everyplace the BJP is pulling through, wherefore not successful Punjab? See erstwhile elections, however galore seats person some, hardly any.”

Elaborating connected the reasons, helium added, “And the crushed is that you (BJP) don’t consult radical who person been successful the field, who cognize what to say. The decisions are taken astatine the precocious level, adjacent successful the Congress, the decisions were taken astatine the apical level, but they used to consult us, everyone – MLAs, MPs’ views were taken. Here (BJP), I don’t deliberation anyone has asked.”

Responding to a question does helium misses Congress, Mr. Singh said “No, the strategy determination was different, I miss the system. A broader benignant of consultation used to instrumentality spot determination (Congress) and determination was a worth of experience, which is lacking present (BJP). Congress is much flexible successful taking views, the BJP, I find, is a spot rigid successful its approach.”

Published - December 13, 2025 05:20 americium IST

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