Punjab Congress today described the Khadoor Sahib bypoll result which the SAD candidate Ravinder Singh Brahampura won as "insignificant and inconsequential".
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Amarinder Singh described the Khadoor Sahib by-poll verdict as "insignificant and inconsequential" and said it will make no difference to anybody except Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal who is trying to "clutch at the straws as he knows that his ship is already sinking".
"This was an election of the Badals, by the Badals for the Badals and Badals alone as no one else was interested, concerned or bothered about it", he said, adding, "instead, what people were concerned about was the reasons and issues that had necessitated this bye-election and which still remain unresolved".
Congress had "boycotted" the polls and said that the issue on which sitting Congress MLA Ramanjit Sikki had resigned was still unresolved. AAP had also stayed out the election.
"The real test of the Badals (un)popularity will be held about a year from now and even Badals themselves know what will be the outcome", the PCC president said, while asking Badals to better be prepared for the "real battle" that would be fought in 2017 and which will "mark their end".
He reiterated his party's stand that the outcome of the Khadoor Sahab by-election was quite insignificant and inconsequential when the issue of the desecration of the Guru Granth Sahab and the subsequent police firing and killing of innocent protestors had not been resolved as yet.
Reacting to Badal claiming it to be a "massive" victory, he asked the Chief Minister, "instead of going into a shameless celebratory mode over a state scripted and sponsored result, you should actually be feeling guilty and apologising to the people of Punjab that you have failed to address their concerns and reasons which necessitated the bye-election".
Brahampura won the Khadoor Sahab bypoll defeating his nearest rival Independent candidate Bhupinder Singh by a margin of 65,664 votes.
