A day after Captain Amarinder Singh formally resigned from the Congress party and called Navjot Singh Sidhu an acolyte of the Pakistani deep state, the Punjab Congress president hit back, dubbing the former chief minister as a "spent cartridge" and a "dying duck in a thunderstorm".
Interacting with media persons in Amritsar, Sidhu also called Singh a "fraud", "coward" and a "crybaby".
Singh in his resignation letter to party president Sonia Gadhi on Tuesday had threatened to reveal the names of those in the Charanjit Singh Channi government who were allegedly involved in illegal sand-mining trade.
Reacting to it, Sidhu asked if the former CM was sleeping all these years. “If there was mafia during his regime, then who was earning the money?,” he asked.
"He is a fraud person. He has become a 'rondu bachha' (crybaby). It is said when person ages he becomes like a child, he has become a 'rondu bacha' now," Sidhu said.
Singh resigned as the chief minister of Punjab in September following a bitter power tussle with Sidhu. Later he had announced the launch of a new political party and his intention to ally with the BJP and Akali Dal for the upcoming Assembly polls.
On Tuesday, the 79-year-old leader timed his bitter resignation letter with an announcement on the name of his new party. The Punjab Lok Congress will be formally launched after the Election Commission registers it and allots a poll symbol.
“We changed a failed chief minister," Sidhu said. "People of Punjab will have to decide whether they stand with those who fight for Punjab or with those who fight for power."
Singh in his seven-page resignation letter had accused Sonia Gandhi and Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of hatching a midnight conspiracy to oust him. He had also attacked Sidhu for his alleged Pakistani links and said the latter's "claim to fame was that he would abuse me and my government on a regular basis".
With inputs from PTI
