Amarinder Singh vows to fight against Badal

SINGH STILL CONFIDENT: Amarinder Singh vowed to fight the vendetta unleashed against him by the Akali Dal government.

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Chandigarh: Former Punjab chief minister and senior Congress leader Amarinder Singh has been disqualified from the Punjab Assembly for a period of three and a half years but the leader don’t seem to have given up.

Singh was held guilty in a land scam and the Congress is calling the assembly’s decision a royal disgrace. But, the former CM still looks very confident.

The former CM looked very confident while walking out of the assembly complex on Wednesday evening and vowed to fight the "vendetta unleashed against him by the Akali Dal government" in the state.

"The decision and action of the committee is unconstitutional and against jurisprudence. I will approach the Punjab and Haryana high court. If need be, I will seek re-election from my Patiala seat," Amarinder Singh said.

"I am not afraid of Badal. (Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh). We will go to court on this issue and also to the people’s court. We will show them where these Akalis stand,” he added.

Ironically, when Amarinder himself was the chief minister, he too had ensured that the Badals were caught in several corruption cases.

And therefore Prakash Singh Badal said: “If some one does a murder from the present government wont the next government take up the matter?"

The 66-year-old Congress leader, who represents Patiala, was on Friday indicted by a special committee of the Assembly for alleged irregularities in exempting 32.10 acres of land for private development in Amritsar during his tenure as chief minister.

Corruption allegations against each other have become the hallmark of Punjab's two main parties. While the Akalis are banking on the report to paint Amarinder in a bad light, Congress leaders in the state say this whole controversy will only serve to strengthen the party position ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.

With inputs from agencies