After a meeting with Sonia Gandhi last week, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had said he would accept “whatever decision is taken by the Congress high command”.
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh expressed his ‘displeasure’ to Sonia Gandhi in the letter on Friday amid speculations of Navjot Singh Sidhu being named the Congress party chief.
Sidhu met with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi on Friday in Delhi a day after a dramatic escalation in his feud with Amarinder Singh.
The letter mentioned that if Sidhu is made the president, the party would be harmed. Current Congress chief Harish Rawat will also meet Amarinder Singh on Saturday in Chandigarh.
According to the CM, Sidhu’s working style would hurt the Congress. “Old party members will be angry, and the Congress will be split due to this,” he said in the letter.
Sidhu’s meeting with Sonia came ahead of the party’s Punjab unit revamp. After the meeting, Rawat said Sonia Gandhi is yet to take a final decision on the issue and he will share it soon after it is done. When asked if a decision to appoint Sidhu as Punjab Congress chief has been made, Rawat said, “Who says this?”
“I had come here to submit my report on Punjab to the Congress chief and as soon as a decision is taken by the Congress President, I will come and share it with you,” Rawat said. “Please read my statement very carefully and try and understand the words and their meaning,” he also said.
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Supporters arrived at Navjot Singh Sidhu‘s residence and fed each other sweets while awaiting an official announcement on the matter, on Friday.
Sidhu, however, had left Sonia Gandhi’s 10, Janpath residence without talking to the media.
The Congress leadership has been working out a formula for CM Amarinder Singh and Sidhu to work together. The party had set up a three-member panel, headed by the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, to resolve the infighting in the Punjab Congress. With just months to go before the next Assembly polls, the party high command has been trying to resolve the internal rift in the Punjab unit.
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