Amarinder Singh, Congress Spat Day After He Told NDTV He'll Quit Party

Punjab Congress crisis: Captain Amarinder Singh said Harish Rawat's remarks "were clearly prompted by the pathetic situation the party now found itself in the state"

Taking strong exception to Congress's Punjab in-charge Harish Rawat's remarks that Captain Amarinder Singh "seems to be under some kind of pressure", the former Chief Minister replied Mr Rawat's claims and allegations were "outrageous". In a statement, Mr Amarinder, who was replaced as Chief Minister by Charanjit Singh Channi, said Mr Rawat's remarks were "were clearly prompted by the pathetic situation the party now found itself in the state after being on a winning spree for four-and-a-half years."

"Three weeks before stepping down as Chief Minister, I had offered my resignation to Mrs Sonia Gandhi but she had asked me to continue," Amarinder Singh said in the statement, adding the "humiliating manner" in which he was pushed into resigning just hours before the Congress meeting, which was clearly convened to oust him, was a matter of public record.

"The world saw the humiliation and the insult heaped on me, and yet Mr Rawat is making claims to the contrary," Amarinder Singh said. "If this was not humiliation, then what was it?"