'Arrogance of abbot sitting in power hurt': Congress slams Amarinder Singh for meeting Amit Shah

Singh, who recently stepped down as the Chief Minister of Congress-led government in Punjab, met Amit Shah in Delhi for an hour on Wednesday. Singh later tweeted that the meeting was held to discuss farmers' issues.

However, the meeting didn't go well with the Congress party, who called Singh "arrogant".

"The arrogance of the abbot sitting in power has been hurt," senior Congress leader and party spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala tweeted.

"Because if a Dalit is made the Chief Minister, then they ask who is taking the decisions in the Congress? The center of anti-Dalit politics is nowhere else but Amit Shah's residence," read his tweet in Hindi.

This was also a dig at  the G-23 leaders, a group of 23 party dissidents, who on Wednesday wrote a new letter to interim president Sonia Gandhi questioning the decisions taken at the top.

"In Congress there is no elected president now. Who is taking calls? We don't know who is taking decisions in the party," senior party leader Kapil Sibal told the media, raising many uncomfortable questions over Punjab.

In another tweet, Surjewala added, "Amit Shah ji and Modi ji are burning in the fire of vengeance from Punjab. They want to take revenge on Punjab because they have so far failed to serve the interests of their capitalist comrades with the black anti-farmer laws. BJP's anti-farmer conspiracy will not succeed."

After the meeting, Singh tweeted earlier in the evening: "Met Union Home Minister @AmitShah ji in Delhi. Discussed the prolonged farmers agitation against #FarmLaws & urged him to resolve the crisis urgently with repeal of the laws & guarantee MSP, besides supporting Punjab in crop diversification. #NoFarmersNoFood."

His team earlier called it a "courtesy visit".

Amarinder Singh's trip to Delhi and meeting Amit Shah has raised furious speculations earlier.

Refuting the speculation, Singh's aide had also tweeted the same.

"Too much being read into Captain Amarinder's visit to Delhi. He's on a personal visit, during which he'll meet some friends and also vacate Kapurthala house for the new Chief Minister. No need for any unnecessary speculation," tweeted Raveen Thukral.

In a new twist to the political drama in Punjab, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned as Congress chief in the state on Tuesday.

This comes just days after Captain Amarinder Singh stepped down as the chief minister in Punjab citing repeated "humiliation" by the party.

The Congress high command had been instrumental in appointing Sidhu as the Punjab unit supremo much against the will of then Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh.

Now the situation once again turned ugly for the Punjab Congress as the state will head to assembly polls early 2022.