"Congress Made A Mistake In...": Amarinder Singh On Punjab Chief Minster Pick
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The former chief minister also warned of an explosion soon from Navjot Singh Sidhu, saying the PCC president was too ambitious to stay quiet for long.
Punjab Lok Congress chief Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said the Congress had made a big mistake by declaring Charanjit Singh Channi as its chief ministerial face as a "chief minister should be decided on grounds of capability and not on the metric of caste".
Stating that Punjab was never before divided on caste or religious lines, he claimed, "Channi does not have the caliber of a chief minister and his tall claims cannot fool the people of the state."
"Channi claims he has done 'everything' in 111 days. He is fooling the people. Every project has a gestation period and takes months to start," he noted, warning people against getting carried away by such "brazen lies". He added that all the projects mentioned by Mr Channi were initiated by his government.
On the Congress declaring Mr Channi as its chief ministerial candidate in the upcoming state polls, Captain Singh said, "A chief minister should be decided on grounds of capability and not on the metric of caste, be it an SC, Jat or Hindu, which they (Congress) had done."
