Ahead of a doable reform of the Congress unit in Punjab, 10 MLAs on Sunday issued a joint assertion in help of Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and urged the occasion excessive command to not disappoint him.
Seven MLAs from the Congress and three from the AAP, who’ve just lately converted to the ruling occasion, additionally stated that Navjot Singh Sidhu was a star and undoubtedly an asset to the occasion, however publicly criticized his personal occasion and the federal government. Criticizing and criticizing has solely created a “crack in the gap”. additional weakened the cadres.”
Singh and Sidhu have been head to head on numerous points. This assertion has come amid the information that Navjot Singh Sidhu is more likely to be appointed because the state Congress president.
Congress chief Sukhpal Singh Khaira issued a joint assertion on behalf of 10 MLAs.
The seven Congress MLAs are Kuldeep Singh Vaid, Fatehjung Bajwa and Harminder Singh Gill.
Apart from Khaira, the 2 insurgent AAP MLAs who issued the assertion are Jagdev Singh Kamlu and Piermal Singh Khalsa. Three of them had joined the Congress within the month of June.
In the assertion, the MLAs urged the occasion excessive command to not “disappoint” Amarinder Singh, saying that resulting from his tireless efforts, the occasion is properly established in Punjab.
He stated there is no such thing as a doubt that the appointment of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee chief is the prerogative of the occasion excessive command, however on the identical time “washing dirty linen” in public has introduced down the occasion’s graph throughout the previous couple of months.
He stated that Singh commanded immense respect from numerous sections of the society within the state, particularly these farmers for whom he jeopardized his chair as chief minister by passing the 2004 Abolition of Water Accords Act. .
He stated within the assertion that Singh stood as a giant chief amongst Sikhs resulting from his principled stand on the time of examination.
He stated Singh additionally confronted “high-handed vendetta politics” by the hands of the Badal household for submitting corruption and disproportionate property circumstances in opposition to him in his first time period as chief minister.
The MLAs stated that because the elections are solely six months away, pulling the occasion in numerous instructions will damage its prospects within the 2022 elections.
He supported Singh’s resolution to not meet Sidhu till he publicly apologized for his “derogatory” tweets in opposition to him.
He stated that Sidhu ought to apologize publicly in order that the occasion and the federal government can work collectively.
He stated he hoped that the occasion excessive command would take cognizance of his options and would positively have in mind the place, contribution and background of Amarinder Singh whereas taking vital choices for the occasion.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
