Cong to go it alone in Punjab: Amrinder

Chandigarh: Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh said his party would go it alone in the 2017 Assembly elections, a few months after saying that he was open to a grand alliance in the state. Talking to the media, Amarinder ruled out the possibility of an alliance with any political party or group in the state. He said, “The Congress party, on its own, is firmly placed to win the elections by a massive margin.” He added that he had earlier suggested a broad-based alliance of secular forces, but the situation and circumstances have now changed and the party was “way ahead of others.” He pointed out that the People’s Party of Punjab and Shiromani Akali Dal-Longowal had already merged into the Congress and the BSP had decided to contest of its own.