during Punjab At the time of crisis, Twitter saw dramatic takedowns and bickering between senior Congress leaders – Navjot Singh Sidhu, Captain Amarinder Singh and Harish Rawat – who took to the micro-blogging website for communication during the past few months.
For all optical purposes, the deliberate use of Twitter has been action-packed, with fellow party leaders hitting out at each other on political and personal issues surrounding the state of Punjab. Sidhu, Captain and Rawat remained the main players
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Sidhu’s tweets ranged from power tariffs for consumers, termination of power purchase agreements (PPAs) to open resentment against the Captain Sarkar.
Meanwhile, former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has also hit out at Sidhu, attacking his words and calling him “unfit” to lead the party. Singh has also said that Punjab’s security will be at stake if the state is given in his hands.
Soon after Sidhu resigned as Punjab Congress chief on Wednesday, Singh said, “He is not a stable person.” Singh has indeed vowed to continue his fight against Sidhu.
Singh tweeted, “I told you so… he is not a stable person and not fit for the border state of Punjab.”
After resigning, Sidhu tweeted a new video, in which he said that he will fight for the truth till his last breath. He wrote, ‘Will continue to fight for rights and truth till the last breath.
On the other hand, angry with the party and the ongoing tussle between Sidhu and Sidhu, the former CM Singh has removed the mention of “Congress” from his Twitter bio.
At 11:42 pm on Friday, Punjab Congress in-charge Rawat tweeted about the decision to hold an immediate CLP meeting on Saturday. Ten minutes later, at 11:52 pm, PCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu directed all the MLAs to remain present. The announcement may seem sudden, but the developments before it are an indication that the Congress high command was under pressure from the anti-Captain Amarinder Singh lobby.
The ball was set in motion two days ago when around 40 MLAs wrote to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, demanding a CLP to take stock of the 18-point agenda, which Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has to complete ahead of the elections. was assigned the task of doing it. Sources said the letter has left the high command confused. Rawat, though reiterated on several occasions that no steps were taken to remove Singh, but the letter from a large section of MLAs was so politically significant that it could not be ignored.
Reliable sources in the party revealed that after deliberations, the high command had decided to send two observers of the party to “gauge” the mood of most of the MLAs in the state.
The turmoil within the Punjab Congress turned into an all-out war in May, after which Patri’s central leadership rushed to intervene. A three-member committee headed by Rajya Sabha MP Mallikarjun Kharge was constituted on 29 May to resolve the factionalism.
The committee met around 150 leaders from Punjab, many of whom accused the Captain of joining hands with Badal and not fulfilling election promises.
Singh is unhappy with Sidhu’s equation with siblings Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, who “viewed” him as the face of the next generation of Congress in Punjab.
On July 18, ignoring the objections of the former chief minister, the Congress leadership appointed Sidhu as the state unit chief along with four working presidents.
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