Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has resigned after months of infighting in the Punjab Congress and repeated attacks on the leader of Navjot Singh Sidhu. Singh told a press conference that he felt “humiliated” by the fact that the CLP meeting was called for the third time, and the leadership did not trust him.
However, how did the turmoil in the Punjab chapter of the Congress begin? All developments are summarized in 10 points:
- ‘Tea’ in May: Sidhu and Amarinder have been face-to-face with each other for some time now. Both Singh and Sidhu met over tea for about 50 minutes in Mohali on March 18, following which speculations were rife that Sidhu would be re-inducted into the state cabinet. However, later in May, Sidhu once again attacked Singh over the 2015 Kotkapura firing, saying the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s order to set up a new SIT to probe the incident was taken as a distraction by the state government. accepted for. Sidhu has been targeting the chief minister over the sacrilege of the Guru Granth Sahib and the alleged delay in getting justice after the police firing incident.
- ‘Convenience to you’: In July, Sidhu made a series of tweets that stunned many in the party, with some interpreting it as an ‘ally’ for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
- Battle Camp, Sidhu Height: The camp of Sidhu and Amarinder clashed for some time, after which Sidhu was made the chief of Punjab Congress.
- Sidhu’s attacks did not stop, Rawat’s meeting In late August, party in-charge Harsh Rawat landed in Chandigarh and began talks with state leaders, including state Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu, who continued to target the Captain Amarinder Singh government on various issues. Besides Sidhu, his close confidante and MLA Pargat Singh, a noted CM batter, also met Rawat at Congress Bhavan to discuss the latest developments in the party. Significantly, Pargat had hit out at the Punjab government a few days back, claiming that it was yet to fulfill several promises made to the people of the state during the assembly elections.
- Harish Rawat’s tweet late Friday night: Punjab Congress in-charge Harish Rawat announced late on Friday that a meeting of the Congress Legislature Party will be held at the PPCC headquarters in Chandigarh on Saturday. Interestingly, Rawat made the announcement on microblogging site Twitter. “AICC has received a representation from a large number of MLAs of Congress party, requesting to convene an immediate meeting of Congress Legislature Party of Punjab. Under this, a meeting of CLP has been called on September 18 at 5 pm in the office of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee.
- CLP meeting held a day after MLAs’ letter to Sonia Gandhi Though the agenda of the CLP was not known, it came a day after at least 40 MLAs wrote to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, calling for a meeting of the CLP to chalk out a strategy for the upcoming assembly elections to be held in early 2022. was demanded. Sources said that the MLAs also informed the President through a letter that they would discuss the 18-point agenda of the party high command given to Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh.
- Amarinder Singh told friends he would resign: According to sources, ahead of the MLAs’ meeting held late on Saturday, Singh has told his close ‘friends’ Kamal Nath and Manish Tewari that he would like to quit the old party if asked to resign from the post of CM. . – A claim rejected by the Chief Minister’s Office.
- Captain Amarinder Singh Resigns: Captain Amarinder Singh met the Governor of Punjab and submitted his resignation and that of his Council of Ministers.
- ‘I feel humiliated’: Amarinder Singh: Singh resigned from his post in the Punjab Congress after months of fighting and said he felt “humiliated” so he took the decision. “I gave my message to Sonia Gandhi that I am going to resign. This is happening (CLP meeting) for the third time. I feel humiliated.”
- next CM? Sidhu may have the last laugh as political experts give him the engineering side of Captain Amarinder as CM. The Captain said in his press conference that the party can choose a CM whom he trusts. According to experts and sources, the name of Sunil Jakhar is coming out for this post.
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