"Prolonged Sulking Doesn't Help State": Manish Tewari On Punjab Crisis
NDTV
The Amarinder Singh-Navjot Sidhu crisis in Punjab Congress could have been handled in more gracefully, Manish Tiwari hass said.
Highlighting the sensitivity of the situation in Punjab following the crisis that has broken out with the recent change in leadership and a bout of resignations in the ruling Congress, party leader Manish Tewari today said the price of such political instability will be paid by the people.
The Anandpur Sahib MP, whose Lok Sabha constituency includes nine of the legislative ones, also said that such disruption only makes Pakistan and its intelligence agency, the ISI, "happy".
In the 1980s and 1990s, Punjab had suffered a violent insurgency largely backed by the neighbouring country.
"Every Congress man will ensure that mandate of the people is respected. I don't think this prolonged sulking works for the state. This whole thing could have been handled in much, much more graceful and better way," Mr Tiwari told NDTV.
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