Former Punjab Chief Minister and BJP leader Captain Amarinder SIngh has expressed strong displeasure with the functioning of Punjab BJP ahead of the crucial 2027 assembly elections.
Singh had left the Congress in 2021 and subsequently formed the Punjab Lok Congress. He merged the party with the BJP in 2022.
Singh said his remarks were not about demanding authority over party decisions, but about ensuring that the experience of local leaders was taken into account. “This is what I said; we have joined a party, so ask us, as we are locals who live here,” he said. He said he considered it his responsibility to communicate his views about Punjab to the party. “I have not said that my relevance is no longer there in the Congress or the BJP. Parties keep changing,” he said. That does not mean I will now leave and join another party,” he said.
The former Chief Minister also stressed that his comments should not be interpreted as saying that his political relevance had ended in either the Congress or the BJP. “When I was in the Congress, I also went to the Akali Dal over Operation Blue Star and later returned to the Congress.
