Eight months after his re-admission, Congress leader Jagmeet Singh Brar on Monday was expelled from the party for launching a campaign against Punjab unit chief Amarinder Singh.
The 57-year-old Brar was given the marching orders as he continued his tirade against Amarinder Singh, the party’s face for the Assembly elections next year, despite warnings from the central leadership.
“All India Congress Committee (AICC) has expelled Jagmeet Singh Brar, ex-MP, from the primary membership of the party with immediate effect,” Shakeel Ahmed, Congress general secretary in-charge of party affairs in Punjab announced here.
Brar had been at loggerheads with Amarinder ever since his appointment as the president of the Punjab unit of the Congress. His latest attacks were targeted at Amarinder’s campaign for the Assembly elections next year. He had mocked Amarinder’s “Coffee with Captain” campaign as “too western” and announced a counter “Jeera lassi with Punjabis” tour.
Brar had also praised AAP convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Maghi Mela rally in Punjab in January, remarks that had angered a section of the state Congress.
In August 2014, the Congress had suspended Brar for suggesting that Congress President Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi take a break from politics and hand over the reins of the party to someone else. However, Sonia decided to revoke the suspension in August after Brar met her twice and gave clarification for his remarks.Reacting strongly to his expulsion, Brar said he had been “condemned without hearing.”