Chandigarh, 22/4: Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday said the party lost the Punjab elections because of the “mafia raj” that prevailed in the state and it now needed to reinvent itself, while praising Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann as a “younger brother” and an “honest man.
Without taking names, he blamed Amarinder Singh and Charanjit Singh Channi –- the two Congress chief ministers who ran the state in the past five years – for failing to crack down on the “mafia”.
He said he will support Mann, whose Aam Aadmi Party trounced the Congress in the recent assembly polls, if he fights the mafia.