‘Khadoor Sahab by-election was of the Badals, by the Badals and for the Badals’, Capt Amarinder

CHANDIGARH : Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today rejected the Khadoor Sahab by-election result as “insignificant and inconsequential” saying it will make no difference to anybody except the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal who is trying to clutch at the straws as he knows that his ship is already sinking.“This was an election of the Badals, by the Badals for the Badals and Badals alone as no one else was interested, concerned or bothered about it”, he remarked, adding, “instead, what people were concerned about was the reasons and issues that had necessitated this bye-election and which still remain unresolved”. “The real test of the Badals (un)popularity will be held about a year from now and even Badals themselves know what will be the outcome”, the PCC president said, while asking them (the Badals) to better be prepared for the real battle that would be fought in 2017 and which will mark their end. He reiterated his party’s stand that the outcome of the Khadoor Sahab bye-election was quite insignificant and inconsequential when the issue of the desecration of the Holy Guru Granth Sahab and the subsequent police firing and killing of innocent protestors had not been resolved as yet.Reacting to Mr Badal claiming it to be a “massive” victory, he told the Chief Minister, “instead of going into a shameless celebratory mode over a state scripted and sponsored result, you should actually be feeling guilty and apologising to the people of Punjab that you have failed to address their concerns and reasons which necessitated the bye-election”.