Sidhu will visit Delhi on October 14; ‘Organizational matters’ to be discussed with Rawat, Venugopali
Congress leader Harish Rawat on Tuesday announced that Navjot Singh Sidhu will reach Delhi on October 14 to hold discussions with him and Congress general secretary KC Venugopal. According to Rawat, the discussion will be on “organizational matters” of the state Congress.
The political crisis in Punjab escalated when Sidhu submitted his resignation as the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee chief soon after Charanjit Singh Channi was inducted as the new CM of Punjab.
Since the move, there have been reports of uneasy tension between Sidhu and Channi. Sidhu also did not attend the Chief Minister’s son’s wedding. He did not give any reason for his absence.
However, soon after his resignation, Sidhu agreed to continue as the head of the Punjab Congress Committee. He has not yet formally withdrawn his resignation.
In a video going viral, Sidhu can be heard saying, “If the son of Bhagwant Sidhu (his father) was allowed to lead, you would have seen… Congress is in a state of dying…” . The remark was seen as an embarrassment to his party’s central leadership, which had supported him during the open rebellion against Amarinder Singh.
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