Congress goes into damage control over Punjab

Amid rising tensions between Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and former Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, high Congress leaders, together with former get together president Rahul Gandhi and Leader of the Opposition within the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, held back-to-back conferences on Tuesday to resolve the disaster.

Captain Amarinder Singh (retd.), who met the All India Congress Committee (AICC) panel headed by Mr. Kharge for the second time for over three hours, is learnt to have been instructed by the get together leaders that grievances of the MLAs must be resolved, and the get together should current a united face for the 2022 Assembly ballot.

“Everybody has said that they will fight the poll together, and the party is united under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi,” Mr. Kharge instructed a information company after assembly the Punjab Chief Minister.

AICC basic secretary in-charge of Punjab Harish Rawat and former MP J.P. Aggarwal had been the opposite members of the panel who attended the assembly Captain Amarinder.

The panel is alleged to have taken word of the feedback made by Mr Sidhu within the media, particularly at a time when the excessive command was working in direction of resoling the variations between totally different factions in Punjab.

Sources mentioned that the AICC panel is alleged to have indicated that there would quickly be adjustments within the Punjab unit and the Chief Minister must make himself accessible to all sections of the get together

Separately, Mr Gandhi met over a dozen leaders from Punjab up to now two days together with Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief Sunil Jakhar, Rajya Sabha member Partap Singh Bajwa and Punjab legislator Pargat Singh and Lok Sabha member Ravneet Singh Bittu.

“Rahul Gandhi ji met more than 4 leaders yesterday and would be meeting more than nine today. Everyone is putting across their views before him and the main issue if how do we approach the 2022 Assembly elections. Everyone is talking about what kind of reforms that we need to do before election and every party does this six months before the elections,” Mr. Bittu instructed reporters after assembly Mr Gandhi.

“Being a border and minority State, Punjab is being discussed at the highest level. Things will be set right within a week and the voices that are coming out now, they will be addressed within a week. There will be a new team as well as old people and Capt. Amarinder Singh will work smoothly under the supervision of the high command,” he added.

While there is no such thing as a readability if or when Mr Sidhu will likely be politically rehabilitated, sources say that the Punjab Chief Minister is beneath stress from his MLAs to ship.

In their conferences with Mr Gandhi, a number of MLAs are learnt to have raised points such because the sand mining mafia and transport mafia in Punjab, concessions in electrical energy payments and public anger over the 2015 sacrilege problem.

“The Chief Minister briefed us on actions that he has taken on some issue as well as assured us of the action that his government is going to take,” an AICC panel member mentioned.