Vikramaditya Singh resigns from Sukhu cabinet, says party humiliated him

Amid the latest tussle for power in the state, Himachal Pradesh Public Works Minister Vikramaditya Singh on Wednesday announced his resignation from the Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu cabinet.

“I am submitting my resignation to the Chief Minister and the Governor,” he told reporters.

“There were attempts from some quarters to humiliate and weaken me and despite objections, I supported the government,” he said.

Trouble has been mounting for the Congress since Tuesday, when it lost its only Rajya Sabha seat to the BJP due to cross voting by six of its members.

Announcing his resignation, Vikramaditya Singh said he was “deeply hurt” by the events of the last two days and said there was a need to reflect on what went wrong for the Congress.

He said he has informed Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and party leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi about the developments and the ball is now in the court of the party high command.

Vikramaditya Singh said, “The Congress party had made promises to the people and it is our responsibility to fulfill those promises and I will decide my future strategy after consulting my supporters.”

He said that the 2022 assembly elections in the state were fought in the name of former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, who is also his father. “There was not a single poster, or hoarding, or banner that did not have his photograph. The day before the voting there was a full page advertisement in the newspapers with his photograph.”

But after the victory, when it came to his statue, the government failed to decide the location.

Vikramaditya Singh said, “This is not a political but an emotional matter for a son.”

He also quoted a couplet by India’s last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, “Kitna hai bad-naseeb ‘Zafar’ for burial, do gaz zameen bhi na mili kuch-e-yaar main.”

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