Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi
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- Sonia Gandhi asks PCCs of Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Manipur to resign
- The development comes two days after the CWC discussed the reasons for the Congress’ debacle in the polls.
- Congress defeat in all electoral states
Party spokesperson Randeep Surjewal said that Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi has asked Punjab Party chief Navjot Singh Sidhu to resign from the post. In the recently concluded assembly elections, the Congress got just 18 seats, and the Aam Aadmi Party with 92 in the House of 117. AAP won 92 seats in the Punjab Assembly elections.
Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu lost from Amritsar East seat. AAP candidate and political party Jivanjyot Kaur defeated Sidhu by a margin of 6,750 votes. SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who contested from this seat, stood third.
Surjewal said the interim Congress president has also asked the state Congress presidents of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur to resign so that the post can be reconstituted.
Following the Congress’ defeat in the Punjab Assembly polls, former state Congress chief Sunil Jakhar on Monday hit out at Charanjit Singh Channi and called him a “liver” whose “greed dragged the party down”.
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