India, national security comes first: Amarinder

October 20, 2021 21:45

Speaking with Shekhar Gupta, the Editor-in-Chief of The Print on his Off The Cuff show, the former soldier and two-time chief minister of Punjab expressed 'personal' hurt over the way the Gandhis treated him and asked for his resignation.

"Done everything in power for my country and my people while in the Army and public life. I do not want to go out as failure; I was pushed out in an ignoble way," he said.

"I am not going to quit. I will fight this battle out. I will quit only after winning the battle," Capt Amarinder Singh said.

"Otherwise (if I lose) doesn't matter. You know the motto of the Gorkha Regiment? Their motto is it is better to die than be a coward. And I go by that. I am not from the Gorkha Regiment; I was from the Sikh Regiment. Nevertheless, that is a very good motto to have."

Capt Singh spoke on a range of issues. Here's the glimpse of he said during the 45-minute interview with Shekhar Gupta:

On national Security and Punjab on the verge of slipping into a very bad place

I am concerned about this from the last three years, particularly about Punjab's weaponisation. This had been happening in the past. They keep funding and sending weapons to ISI and Khalistani sleeper cells but now the quantum of weapons being sent into Punjab are certainly disturbing.

I took this up with the Government of India and gave a copy to Mrs Gandhi, the Congress president.

Earlier these weapons were smuggled using underground tunnels but now it's being done increasingly, intensively using drones. Technology has helped reduce distance and increase payload.

They have been sending AK47s, RDX, heroin, and somebody is planning something by sending tiffin boxes, whereby each tiffin box contains 6 kilograms of RDX and we have found six such tiffin boxes. There are triple switches inside these tiffin boxes making these bombs virtually foolproof. What, we don't know yet and that is my biggest worry.

On collaborating with the BJP by keeping his party in the dark

When it comes to national security, when comes to securing Punjab and people of Punjab then we are beyond any party in this. I have been making these statements for many years now.

India comes first, national security comes first.

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