Good riddance, says Congress about Lali joining Akali Dal
By Amrit Pal Singh Brar
Jalandhar, 18 May 2018: Former Minister and senior Congress leader Rana Gurjeet Singh today said that Brij Bhupinder Singh Lali joining the Akali Dal ahead of the Shahkot by-election was good riddance for the party.
“Who is Brij Bhupinder Lali?”, Rana retorted while responding to reporters for his reaction on the issue, while asserting that Lali was quite an unknown entity in Shahkot.
“Honestly, not just me, even an average Congressman does not know who is this Lali”, he said, while adding, Lali’s only claim to the fame was getting elected in 1992 and becoming a “junior and non-performing minister in the government of late Sardar Beant Singh and after which he just vanished in the thin air”.
“One can judge his performance and popularity from the subsequent outcome that Congress could never win this seat for five consecutive terms”, Rana remarked, while asserting that he cannot gather even five members for a programme.
And that is the reason that such a “popular” leader had to join such a “popular” party inside the hidden confines of his own house, he added.
The Kapurthala Congress leader, who is leading the campaign of the party for the by-election, said, it was good that the opportunists like Lali got “exposed and self-exiled” at the right time.
Rana reiterated that the Congress candidate Hardev Singh Ladi will win the by-election by a record margin of more than 50,000 votes and accomplish the “mission two-third majority” of the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh.