A solution to this infighting is expected to come out post this meeting.
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh is all set to meet Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday as the crisis in the state Congress unit grows. A solution to this infighting is expected to come out post this meeting.
For the past several weeks now, the State has witnessed a very ugly between the Chief Minister and cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu. Last week, Mr. Sidhu had an hour-long meeting with party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra where his role in the Punjab Congress is said to have been discussed.
Prior to that both Mr. Sidhu and Capt Amarinder had separately met the three-member All India Congress Committee (AICC) that had been set up to resolve the issue.
Sidhu on his part seems to have made it clear to the party high command that he is looking for a greater role in the state unit, including the Punjab Congress President.
Amarinder Singh has been facing the anger of a section of his party colleagues in Punjab over a legal setback in a 2015 case involving the desecration of the Sikh religious text Guru Granth Sahib and police firing during protests linked to it. Many in the Punjab Congress accuse the Chief Minister of not fighting strongly enough for an emotive cause that could impact them in the polls.
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Mr. Sidhu, the Congress’s star campaigner in the 2017 Punjab polls, became a minister in the Amarinder Singh government but quit two years later after his ministry was downgraded.
“He was given a lighter ministry because he refused to take important decisions,” said sources close to the Chief Minister, denying that he was shafted, NDTV reported.
After two years of silence, the Amritsar East MLA started targeting Amarinder Singh once again this year.
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