In the recently held party meeting, Punjab Congress leaders demanded an important role for Sidhu.
At a party meeting of Punjab Congress leaders held in Ludhiana today, some of them were seen batting for an important role Former Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu, who were among the participants of the meeting. Party leaders said the meeting was to discuss ways to strengthen the party’s state unit after its defeat in the assembly polls and the Centre’s decision to align the service conditions of employees of the Chandigarh Union Territory with those of the central civil services.
Congress MLA from Bholath, Sukhpal Khaira, rubbished reports that the meeting was a show of strength of the “Sidhu group” before being elected as the next state unit president of the Congress. “I want to clarify that this was not a meeting of any particular group, Sidhu group etc. It is very wrong to say. It was a meeting of Congress party,” he said.
Like-minded Congress MLAs, former MLAs, assembly election candidates and former state Congress Committee president gathered at party leader Rakesh Pandey’s house. The participants included Khaira, Sidhu, Ashwini Sekhri and former MLA Surinder Davar.
Congress got a crushing defeat punjab assembly elections Because it could win only 18 seats and Aam Aadmi Party came to power by winning 92 out of 117 assembly constituencies.
Sidhu lost AAP candidate and political greenhorn from Amritsar East constituency by Jeevan Jyot Kaur.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi had asked the party’s state unit chiefs to resign after the electoral defeat in five states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Manipur and Punjab and Sidhu also resigned.
Khaira, however, said that Sidhu’s resignation has not been accepted by the high command yet.
(with PTI inputs)
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