'You reap what you sow': Capt Amarinder Singh's savage response to Harish Rawat tweets

Tribune Web Desk
Chandigarh, December 22

Capt Amarinder Singh seems to be taking some satisfaction in his former party’s seemingly endless troubles.

Hours after Harish Rawat, the All India Congress Committee general secretary formerly in charge of the party’s affairs in Punjab, tweeted his distress at the lack of support from the party’s high command, Capt Amarinder Singh, who quit Congress in November because of his differences with the party, said in a tweet: “You reap what you sow”.

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“All the best for your future endeavours (if there are any) @harishrawatcmuk ji,” Capt Amarinder Singh told his former party colleague.

Rawat, the former chief minister of Uttarakhand, said in a series of tweets that he was unsatisfied with the going-ons in the party.

“It is a strange predicament.  I have to swim in the sea of elections and the party organization instead of supporting me is turning it back on me and playing a negative role in most places,” said Rawat, the current party campaign chairman for the election-bound state, said in the first of his series of tweets.

“The powers that be have left crocodiles there. People on whose orders I have to swim, their nominees are tying up my hands and feet.”

“Representatives of the people on whose orders I have to swim across this sea of elections have tied my hands and feet. A thought is repeatedly occurring to me – Harish Rawat, you have had enough, it is time to rest.”

“Then again a voice in another corner of my heart says that I would neither beseech nor retreat. I am in a state of flux and confusion. Hopefully the New Year will show me direction. I am sure Lord Kedarnath will guide me out of this perplexity.”

Constant turmoil within the Punjab Congress unit and an unending power tussle with his arch-rival Navjot Singh Sidhu, now the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president, prompted Capt Amarinder Singh to step down as chief minister of Punjab in September. He followed this up by eventually pulling away with the Congress and launching his own party, the Punjab Lok Congress, which is now preparing to face next year’s Punjab assembly elections with once rivals Bharatiya Janata Party.

Rawat was in charge of the Congress’s Punjab affairs at the time of Amarinder Singh’s resignation and oversaw most of this year’s turmoil within the Punjab Congress. Rajasthan Congress leader Harish Chaudhary eventually replaced him.

You reap what you sow! All the best for your future endeavours (if there are any) @harishrawatcmuk ji. https://t.co/6QfFkVt8ZO

— Capt.Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) December 22, 2021