According to sources, ahead of the MLAs’ meeting held late on Saturday, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has told his close “friends” Kamal Nath and Manish Tewari that he would prefer to leave the old party if asked. To resign from the post of Chief Minister – Claim rejected by the Chief Minister’s Office.
The Congress announced an emergency meeting on Friday night, citing “representation of a large number of MLAs”. Sources say that the party is under increasing pressure from Punjab MLAs to replace Amarinder Singh, but he is not ready to resign.
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The sources also revealed that the majority wants a Hindu leader. Sources said that Navjot Singh Sidhu or Sunil Jakhar could become the new leader of the legislature party. He further said that the high command is hopeful that Singh will respect the decision of the majority MLAs in the legislature party meeting.
Meanwhile, observers Harish Chaudhary and Ajay Maken, who left for Delhi for the Punjab meeting, have called another meeting with all the cabinet ministers. CM Amarinder Singh has also summoned all the MLAs at 2 pm.
At around 11:42 pm on Friday, Punjab Congress in-charge Harish Rawat tweeted about the decision to hold an immediate CLP meeting. Ten minutes later, at 11.52 pm, PCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu directed all the MLAs to remain present.
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.
Party sources 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 idea to get a sense of the numbers was really huge and to what extent the anti-Captain MLAs were willing to press for the removal of the Chief Minister.” Accordingly, the party tried to send Harish Choudhary and Ajay Maken to Chandigarh and meet the MLAs. had decided to do.
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