Chandigarh, Oct 2 (IANS) With the mass exodus of leaders, comprising unswerving and veteran lawmakers, and the sudden upward push of the saffron brigade in Punjab, the weakened Congress, which faced a humiliating ouster on the arms of greenhorn Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislators in the current Assembly polls, is a boat about to show down, political observers agree with.

They say the birthday celebration, which were making waves until the helm of Capt Amarinder Singh, a BJP man now, has been decreased to a marginal player with one “immature” and “infantile” selection by means of central management like razing to floor one hundred-metre-excessive Noida twin tower — taller than Delhi’s iconic Qutub Minar — in seconds like a percent of playing cards.

In a legislative House of 117, the Congress, which won 77 seats in 2017, managed to win only 18 this time with maximum of its stalwart faces like former Chief Minister Charanjit Channi and kingdom birthday party chief Navjot Singh Sidhu facing humiliating defeat from their respective strongholds.

The BJP, which had won 3 seats within the 2017 when it had contested in alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), secured handiest seats this time, at the same time as SAD won 4 and the others received one.

Interestingly, Channi is missing from the political scene after biting the dust, while Sidhu, the blue-eyed of the Gandhis, is present process a one-12 months jail time period in a avenue rage case of 1988 wherein one individual turned into killed.

The latter is politically completed after his conviction.

In the present lot of legislators, a tug of battle of supremacy is on between senior-most chief Partap Singh Bajwa, the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader in the country assembly, and firebrand younger face and three-time legislator Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, who is the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) leader.

On maximum of the celebration affairs, each Bajwa and Warring are not on the same page, admitted a senior Congress chief, resulting in a fight for one-upmanship and absence of sturdy management and nicely oiled organisational machinery.

“The birthday celebration management has all dressed up with nowhere to go. The cadre at grassroots is demoralised and stressed too,” brought the Congress leader.

Accepting his defeat with all humility, Congress rebel and two-time Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, whose outfit Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) had fought the elections in alliance with the BJP, had stated humans of Punjab had rejected communal and divisive politics of the Congress via first rejecting one chief because the chief minister for being a Hindu and then seeking to play the caste element.

He became purportedly regarding the appointment of Channi, the kingdom’s first Dalit Chief Minister, overlooking then former Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar.

Prominent Hindu face Jakhar, who played a vital role in strengthening the birthday celebration’s enterprise at grassroots underneath the helms of Capt Amarinder Singh, had defected from the Congress and joined the saffron brigade.

Well ahead of assertion of the chief minister’s face by the Congress for Assembly polls, Jakhar had spilled beans by saying Sidhu and Channi had been least favoured because the Chief Minister’s in all likelihood after Capt Amarinder Singh’s exit.

He had said he become the primary preference with 42 of the seventy nine legislators favoured his call, changing incumbent Capt Amarinder Singh in September 2021.

Riding excessive on the Modi wave, Capt Amarinder Singh, whose spouse Preneet Kaur remains a Congress MP, is announcing he has a project to perform after joining the BJP.

“I even have a venture to perform and this is to paintings for the interest of the kingdom and the country,” he said.

Addressing his maiden press briefing closing week after becoming a member of the celebration, Capt Amarinder Singh stated he wanted to reinforce the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and celebration President J.P. Nadda.

Besides thanking Modi for beginning the Kartarpur Corridor and withdrawal of three agricultural legal guidelines, he said the Prime Minister has unique fondness for Punjab as whenever as Chief Minister he met him with any call for for the country, he without difficulty familiar it.

“The Congress realised his importance after the devastating 2022 drubbing and defeat while it turned into decreased from 82 seats to mere 18,” stated a Congress revolt legislator, who too joined the BJP.

Describing the Congress and the BJP as twin faces of the identical coin, Cabinet minister and AAP chief Aman Arora accused Congress leader Bajwa of operating secretly for the BJP to put in force their doubtful schedule inside the nation.

“The House turned into alleged to transact commercial enterprise until 3.30 pm but the Congress had didn’t enhance any trouble inside the session and preferred to disturb it. The consultation become prolonged from one to 4 days best on the request of Opposition contributors, but they did not utilise the time properly,” he told the media.

Dubbing Partap Singh Bajwa as Partap Singh ‘Bhajpa’ (BJP), Arora said he’s running at the behest of the BJP and that they need to implement ‘Operation Lotus’.

Slamming the Congress for its irresponsible behaviour within the House on Friday, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann stated Congress leaders have wasted the valuable time of the House by using common disruptions.

The Congress leaders have mercilessly wasted the taxpayers’ money with the aid of developing ruckus for the duration of the proceedings of the House.

Mann categorically stated there “is no difference between the BJP and the Congress”.

“As a remember of fact the fake Congress has emerged as the B-group of the saffron party. Earlier, the Chief Minister of the Congress had ruled the nation at the behest of the BJP and now the entire Congress party is performing on directions of the saffron celebration,” he introduced.