'Humiliated' Capt Amarinder drops Congress from Twitter bio after saying he'll quit party

Tribune Web Desk

Chandigarh, September 30

“Leaving the Congress, but not joining the BJP”, is what former Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh said on Thursday dismissing all rumours of him joining the saffron party. What followed soon after was him dropping the party’s name from his Twitter bio.

His Twitter bio read: “Army Veteran. Former Chief Minister of Punjab. Continuing to Serve the State (sic)”.

On Thursday afternoon, he announced that he would quit the Congress, over a week after he stepped down as Punjab Chief Minister amid increasing differences with Navjot Singh Sidhu.

Amarinder said the Congress was going downhill with senior leaders being completely sidelined and he felt “humiliated” with the way the party treated him, adding: “Sidhu is a mere crowd-puller, and he does not know how to carry the team along.”