GORDIAN KNOT "EMPOWER IAS"

In news:

• A couple of hours before Capt Amarinder Singh tendered his resignation as chief minister of Punjab, former Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar made a tweet: “Kudos to Shri Rahul Gandhi for adopting Alexandrian solution to this Punjabi version of Gordian knot".

About:

• Often used as a metaphor, a ‘Gordian knot’ refers to a very complex problem, which is apparently nearly impossible to resolve.
• The origin of the phrase is traced to the ancient Greece, 333 BC, and is ascribed to Midas, the son of King Gordius of Phrygia, a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia — the present day Asian Turkey — and to the south of Black Sea.
• Phrygia was centred on the Sangarios River.