Chandigarh, May 19 (IANS) Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday congratulated former Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar for joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying that the "right man is in the right party".
He said more leaders are likely to desert the sinking ship of the Congress in the coming days.
In a statement issued here, Amarinder Singh said the exodus from the Congress will continue and the party is headed for an imminent doom.
"Honest and upright leaders like him (Sunil) cannot breathe in the Congress anymore," he said, adding, "That space (in the Congress) has become too stifling and too suffocating."
The former Chief Minister recalled how within the span of less than a year, the Congress has completely collapsed in Punjab due to one wrong decision.
"I was the Chief Minister, while Sunil was the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President, and everything was going so well. We were headed for repeating the government just less than a year ago," he said, adding, "One wrong decision by the leadership proved suicidal for the party that is now staring at its own doom in Punjab and elsewhere in the country."
ADVT
India
'Right man in right party', Amarinder on Jakhar
MORE India ARTICLES
Gangster Ravi Pujari, Don Who Terrorised Bollywood, Held In Senegal
Gangster Ravi Pujari, who was known to call up Bollywood personalities and prominent builders in Mumbai in order to extort money from them, has been arrested in the Senegalese capital of Dakar, according to sources here.
Gangster Ravi Pujari, Don Who Terrorised Bollywood, Held In Senegal
IIT Hyderabad Student Dies After Falling From Terrace While Talking On Phone
M Anirudhya (22), a final year engineering student of IIT-Hyderabad, died instantly when he accidentally fell down from the terrace of his seven-storied hostel building.
IIT Hyderabad Student Dies After Falling From Terrace While Talking On Phone
India To Become $ 5-Trillion Economy In Next 5 Years: Finance Minister Piyush Goyal
Stating that India is solidly back on track and marching towards growth and prosperity, he said the last five years have seen India being universally recognised as a bright spot of the global economy.
India To Become $ 5-Trillion Economy In Next 5 Years: Finance Minister Piyush Goyal
Interim Budget 'A Trailer', Says PM Modi, Toasts Middle Class
Making a big populist push in its final Budget before the General Election, the Narendra Modi government on Friday exempted people with an earning of up to Rs 5 lakh from payment of income tax
Interim Budget 'A Trailer', Says PM Modi, Toasts Middle Class
Canada Lauds Efforts Of Punjab Police In Jassi Sidhu Murder Case
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) of British Columbia have presented appreciation certificate to two Punjab Police officers for their “outstanding work” in the murder case of Canadian citizen Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu alias Jassi.
Canada Lauds Efforts Of Punjab Police In Jassi Sidhu Murder Case
Haryana’s Rich Landlord Jaswinder Singh Who Smuggled Drugs To Punjab Elite Arrested
The Patiala Police have foiled a new methodology to supply opium and other drugs in Punjab, wherein the peddlers were using luxury vehicles to smuggle the contraband into Punjab.