Jalandhar: All of his political career, Captain Amarinder Singh never played on the side line, then his third resignation, even though the first two came out of his own will, the felt sacrifice that built his stature.
Minister of Punjab’s head might come out for now because of coercion but he could not be abolished, because he still had his card close to his chest.
He became a member of the MP Congress in 1980 and joined negotiations to sort out the issue of Punjab before Bluestar’s surgery took place and he resigned from parliament and party in 1984 despite being a personal friend of Gandhis.
After the Blue Star operation in 1984, Amarinder has resigned as a member of MP and the party that gave him a place in history, then, helped him dominate the affairs of the Punjab congress for more than two decades.
Anyone who remains president of the Punjab Congress, Amarinder remains the highest in the party state unit.
He turned to Shiromani Akali Dal (sad) and became the minister in the Surjit Singh Barnalam government in September 1985.
Seven months later, he stopped from the cabinet in protest when the police entered the command Barnala.
With this, he alone himself to Sikh.
After Akalis denied the ticket in the 1997 election, he moved back to Congress in 1998.
Sonia Gandhi made him the head of the party and he pointed him to the performance of Sterling in the 1999 Lok Sabha poll.
Public dissatisfaction worked against the Badal Parkash Singh government but Amarinder had hard duty Bridging the gap between Congress and Sikh.
In 2002, he led the party for victory and sent Badal and his son, Sukhbir Singh Badal, to prison in corruption cases where they were, then, released.
Another high point of his political career was the termination of the Punjab agreement in 2004, which he called a special assembly session.
This cancels all agreements with other countries and the center of sharing river waters.
It has interstate consequences.
In the early 1980s, CM Congress Darbara Singh had resigned petitions from the Supreme Court about the Waters River problem.
The captain became a “punjab waters” in the eyes of the party, even when he was sad also claimed to have fought for the cause.
In the previous term, he survived the open rebellion by Rajinder Kaur Bhattal.
Punjab Congress lost assembly elections in 2007 and 2012, both times under his command, but the charisma did not disappear.
At the push of Sonia Gandhi, he opposed the parliamentary election of Amritsar in 2014 as an outsider in the game and defeated BJP Giant Arun Jaitley, who pushed Amarinder’s national appeal and helped him not only seize the presidentsship of the Punjab Congress from Partap Singh Bajwa but also won the country.
But also won the country by a large mandate of 77 seats.
He showed the ability of large maneuvers in this term but charisma faded because the question of performance forced the high command to record the rebellion and took the final step for its transfer.