Ramoowalia leaving SAD like rats deserting a sinking ship:

Congress today said senior Akali Dal leader Balwant Singh Ramoowalia's deserting the party and switching his loyalty towards Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh was just the beginning of a "massive exodus" of leaders and workers from the party that is likely to follow in the coming days.
"It is a classic case of rats starting to desert a sinking ship," Congress' Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha, Amarinder Singh said.
"Gradually all the rats will desert the Akali Dal before its ship sinks in the storm of widespread public outrage and outcry," the former Chief Minister claimed in a statement here.

The Amritsar MP further said, the very fact that Akali leaders have started seeking "political asylum" in far off states "clearly indicates that nobody was prepared to accept them in Punjab and hence they were running away for shelter to other states."
Commenting on SAD's Senior Vice-President Ramoowalia's decision to leave the Akali Dal, Punjab Congress President Pratap Singh Bajwa said the Akali Dal had now become a sinking ship and ultimately, "besides (CM) Badal, only (DyCM) Sukhbir Singh Badal, (Union Minister) Harsimrat Kaur Badal and (Punjab Minister) Bikram Singh Majithia would be left in the second oldest party".
Bajwa claimed that the SAD-BJP government would fall at its own going by the rate of desertions.

He also referred to the recent resignations by 28 members of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee.