Updated: July 19, 2021 3:14:07 am
The official announcement to nominate Navjot Singh Sidhu as Punjab PCC chief got here after a day of stress, with each him and Chief Minister Amarinder Singh making an attempt to garner assist towards one another.
It appears that Amarinder and his arch rival and Rajya Sabha MP Pratap Singh Bajwa joined palms to cease Sidhu’s rise by holding conferences late on Saturday evening and on Sunday afternoon.
Bajwa additionally held a gathering of all Congress Lok Sabha MPs at his residence, the place he resolved to oppose Sidhu’s appointment. While Bajwa mentioned he was not within the race for chief minister or PCC president, a place he had held previously, the anti-Sidhu camp was selling his identify with the tacit blessings of Amarinder. Bajwa tweeted after the assembly, although he spoke on farmers’ points.
Besides this, 10 MLAs from the pro-Amarinder camp (out of 80 of the Congress within the House), together with three AAP-turned-Congress leaders, issued a press release asking the excessive command to not “disappoint” the CM and his demand. Supported that Sidhu ought to publicly apologize for posting “multiple tweets” towards him. He acknowledged that Sidhu was a celeb and was “no doubt an asset to the party”, including that “condemnation and criticism of his own party and the government in the public view has only created a rift in the cadres and weakened it”.
He hoped that whereas taking necessary selections for the social gathering, the excessive command would undoubtedly bear in mind the standing, contribution and background of Captain Amarinder Singh.
Also, the present Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar referred to as a gathering of district Congress presidents and MLAs on Monday and mentioned that this might point out that they have been standing with the excessive command. Jakhar mentioned the assembly was referred to as on his initiative and never on the behest of the central management. The assembly was referred to as off after Sidhu’s appointment.
Some MPs, who attended the assembly held at Bajwa’s residence, confirmed the decision from Sonia Gandhi, together with Shamsher Singh Dullo. “I told him that if two Jat Sikh leaders (Amarinder and Sidhu) hold top positions in the Congress, what will the Dalits feel?”
Other MPs current in Bajwa’s assembly included Amarinder’s spouse Preneet Kaur, Manish Tewari (amongst PCC outstanding candidates), Ravneet Singh Bittu, Jasbir Singh Gill, Gurjit Singh Aujla, Amar Singh, Mohammad Sadiq and Santokh Singh Choudhary. Rajya Sabha MP from the state Ambika Soni stayed away.
Before the information of Sidhu’s appointment broke, an MP instructed The Indian Express that he anticipated the excessive command to not impose a president on the state unit.
However, different senior leaders like Amarinder’s cupboard minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa and former Union minister Ashwini Kumar suggested social gathering employees to observe the excessive command. Tript Rajinder, who had earlier supported Amarinder towards Sindhu, urged the CM to “forget Sidhu’s tweets as if he had forgotten Pratap’s (Bajwa) tweets and letters of the last four-and-a-half years”.
Ashwani Kumar suggested social gathering employees to “brilliantly” settle for the excessive command’s resolution to nominate Sidhu within the curiosity of unity. “There is no winner or loser. Reconciliation is the way forward. Hope all Congress people play their part in fighting the ideological battle… It is important to ensure that no one feels weak.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
