“Let the EC decide. We have made a request for symbol and the name. Will let you know when we get clearance,” he said.

He also said that the state’s security was under threat in view of an increasing number of drone attacks. Drones have been used to deploy weapons and drugs in the past, he said, noting that now explosives are also being dropped by the devices. “I am not an alarmist. But I know something is happening,” he said, urging the government to take action. “Tell villagers that drones are coming. We have to be careful about this clandestine warfare. We, politicians should protect Punjab.”

A day ahead of the press conference, the Congress high command reached out to several party leaders from Punjab on Tuesday. As soon as Amarinder’s media adviser Raveen Thukral sent out invites for Wednesday’s presser, AICC leader Rahul Gandhi invited at least five MLAs to Delhi and held separate meetings with them.

Hitting out at his political ‘rivals’ on Tuesday, Singh accused them of attacking his supporters in Patiala. “From personal attacks, they’ve now stooped to threats and harassment of my supporters in Patiala and elsewhere. Let me tell my rivals they can’t defeat me with such low-level political games. They will neither win votes nor people’s hearts with such tactics,” they said.