How Congress’ very personal farmers’ protests destroyed its greatest chief Amarinder Singh

Amarinder Singh was the mightiest Congress chief within the states for the previous few years. He received Punjab on his personal and spoke his thoughts more often than not, typically even towards the central excessive command. On varied points like National safety (exterior and inside), welfare measures, and international coverage, he supported a line that was extra aligned with Congress than BJP. But, no extra!With the farmers’ protest going out of hand, Amarinder Singh has now been decreased to a weaker model of his former self. He got here to energy promising regulation and order, which had spiralled out of hand as a result of inefficient administration of Badals, within the state. However, the latest vandalism of Jio towers in Punjab exhibits that the state is not within the management of the Chief Minister.Amarinder Singh had repeatedly appealed to farmers to not vandalise state or company property, however none of them listened to him. The state police haven’t registered a single FIR towards the goons as a result of Singh doesn’t need to irk the Sikh voter base.After the farmers’ protests, a majority of Jat Sikhs said that Amarinder Singh was very reluctant to increase assist to them. Jat Sikhs primarily vote for the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and a few of them have even supported AAP in the previous few years. Amarinder Singh, who himself is a Jat Sikh, got here to energy with the assist of Hindus and the Scheduled Caste Sikhs. The main concern for the SC Sikhs and Hindus of the state are the regulation and order and financial improvement. Addressing this constituency, Singh has run the state with an iron fist within the final 4 years and has been in a position to curb many unlawful actions together with a drug downside. Moreover, he tried to woo the corporates who’ve utterly deserted the state in the previous few decades- as a result of an unsupportive state authorities and regulation and order challenge.But all that went down with the vandalism of the farmers in the previous few days. Amarinder Singh satisfied them to protest in Delhi or on the Haryana border to keep away from any downside within the state. However, the farmers’ protest took an anti-corporate flip when the farmers went on to vandalise the property of Reliance Jio.The farmers’ protests and the vandalism by miscreants are costing the state dearly as the commercial homes primarily based in Ludhiana and Jalandhar- two essential industrial hubs of North India- are struggling closely. All efforts of Amarinder Singh to take care of regulation and order within the state thus, appear to be happening the drain.As per the info launched by Punjab’s state division, the full loss of the trade as of November 20 was 30,000 crore rupees, and by now, it most likely has crossed one lakh crore rupees. The blockade of inputs and outputs has turn into a serious downside for the industries primarily based in Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir, and Himachal Pradesh amid the farmers’ protests.The failure of the Congress-led Amarinder Singh authorities to ship to its main constituency would power it to maneuver to different events within the 2022 meeting election. The Jat Sikhs aren’t going to vote for the celebration and Hindus, in addition to, Scheduled Caste Sikhs may also abandon Amarinder Singh as a result of his failure to deal with the regulation and order within the state. Amarinder Singh is clearly caught within the center because the Congress’ excessive command is supporting the continuing farmers’ protest whereas on the identical time, it’s costing the Punjab Congress closely. In brief, Rahul Gandhi has already written an obituary of the Punjab Congress. Singh being one of the crucial decisive leaders of the Congress celebration is now indecisive and unable to react, all because of Rahul Gandhi’s failed management.