CHANDIGARH- Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today said that after the party's impressive victory in Kerala, Punjab will be next where the Congress will form the government in the elections scheduled early next year.
In an informal interaction with reporters, Warring said that the Congress has emerged much stronger in Kerala as it had earlier won the parliament and local bodies elections also.
Replying to a question on West Bengal, the PCC president said that there were many factors responsible for the TMC’s defeat. He said, besides the partiality shown by the Election Commission of India and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the failures of the TMC government were also responsible for its defeat.
He said, the BJP, besides misusing its power and other institutions and agencies, exploited the grave failures like corruption and lawlessness in the state to its own advantage.
Warring said, Congress did not approve of what was happening in Bengal under the TMC rule and that is the reason the party contested all the 294 assembly segments.
The PCC president also took a dig at the Punjab BJP leaders who were gloating over the Bengal and Assam results. “Let me tell them, Punjab is more like Tamil Nadu and Kerala and less like Bengal or Assam”, he told the BJP leaders claiming Punjab to be their next target, adding, “in Punjab the BJP will meet a fate worse than what it met in Tamil Nadu and Kerala”.
“You can’t polarize people in Punjab and that is my guarantee and without polarization you cannot win even a single seat of state”, he told the BJP.
Besides, the PCC president added, the BJP also owes an answer to the people of Punjab as to why its government in Gujarat is protecting and patronizing the dreaded gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who is the mastermind of the murder of Sidhu Moosewala and many more innocent Punjabis. “Be ready to face these questions before you start daydreaming about winning Punjab”, he dared the BJP leaders.