Punjab: Capt, armed with a pile of recordsdata, defends his authorities in Congress’s conflict room

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Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday met a three-member panel arrange by the Congress excessive command to resolve the infighting within the state unit. In the three-hour-long assembly, Amarinder defended his authorities and answered the problems raised by the occasion legislators earlier than the panel. Friday was the final day of conferences held by the panel headed by Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and Amarinder was the final chief to be heard.

The chief minister had arrived for the assembly carrying a pile of recordsdata in a black bag, sources mentioned, carrying report playing cards of cupboard ministers and a number of other MLAs and a file on the achievements of his authorities.

After rising from the assembly, Amarinder instructed the media that they mentioned the 2022 meeting elections.

When requested to elaborate, he mentioned, “I will not tell you what we discussed as it is between the panel and me.”
The panel was constituted by AICC President Sonia Gandhi to supply a report on the latest disaster within the Punjab Congress.

In a number of face-to-face conferences that lasted for 5 days, the panel met round 150 occasion leaders, together with 80 Congress MLAs, eight Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs. Along with this, leaders of frontal organizations and defeated candidates have been additionally heard.

Sources mentioned the panel briefed the CM concerning the points raised by the occasion individuals and he answered all of the questions raised, and a few of these solutions have been supported by paperwork. He is known to have given a report on the standing of the investigation into the sacrilege case, defined the allegation that the paperwork was ruling, and likewise addressed allegations of vendetta with the Akalis. Besides, the allegations of not defending the circumstances in opposition to the authorized division, inaccessibility have been additionally addressed by the CM in his replies.

Panel member JP Aggarwal instructed the media after the assembly that the CM responded one after the other on all the problems.

“Hon’ble CM explained all the issues raised by his party people. He answered us all. He has responded on all issues. All concerns will be resolved. We spoke to the CM about all those who had any problem with the government,” he mentioned.

On what sort of points have been raised, Agarwal mentioned, “There was no major issue. These were common issues that every political person has. He raised these issues. We will note these in the report.”

On whether or not the committee has really helpful any modifications within the report, he mentioned, “It was not our mandate to recommend any changes. We were compelled to give a report to the high command after talking to all the parties and then assessing the situation.”

Asked whether or not the committee’s opinion is on the important thing demand for delay in justice to police firing victims, he reiterated, “The captain has responded to all the issues raised. We will give our report. “

Agarwal refused to say something on the banner of rebel raised by Navjot Sidhu, Pargat Singh and Pratap Singh Bajwa.

“We’ll kind the whole lot out. But we don’t take names of anybody as all senior leaders had appeared earlier than the panel. These individuals have been additionally amongst them,” he mentioned.

Agarwal mentioned the ultimate report could be submitted to Congress President Sonia Gandhi in a day or two.

Sources revealed that forward of the assembly with Amarinder, AICC leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi held a digital assembly with the panel members on Thursday night.

Amidst the rounds of conferences, political strategist Prashant Kishor met the Chief Minister at Kapurthala House on Friday afternoon. It is being instructed that there was a dialogue between the 2 for an hour. The assembly came about after the CM met a three-member panel.

Kishor, who was appointed principal advisor to the chief minister by Amarinder a couple of weeks in the past, will not be coming to Punjab after the latest meeting election outcomes of 4 states, fueling hypothesis that he’s not desirous about strategizing for Amarinder. Also, sources mentioned that he was promising that his staff would attain Chandigarh however nobody had reached right here but.

Kishor had indicated after the meeting election outcomes that he would not strategize for anybody. Ahead of the election outcomes, he had come to Punjab, held conferences with legislators and officers and requested them a timeline through which they may fulfill the guarantees made by the federal government.

It can also be discovered that Kishor had additionally held a gathering with some MLAs in Delhi after they got here right here to seem earlier than the three-member panel.

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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS

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