A minister and three Congress leaders considered close to Navjot Singh Sidhu, stepped down It was hours later, hours after he resigned as Congress Pradesh Committee chief, and sources told CNN-News18 that there would be more. live update
A top party source said, “The strategy is to put pressure on the Congress leadership.”
The biggest loss to the Punjab Congress was perhaps Razia Sultana, who resigned as a cabinet minister on Tuesday, hours after Sidhu resigned as state Congress chief. In her resignation letter to Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, Sultana said she was resigning “in solidarity with Navjot Singh Sidhu”.
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Sultana is considered close to Sidhu. Her husband Mohammad Mustafa, a former IPS officer, is Sidhu’s principal strategic advisor. Earlier in the day, Sultana was given the charge of water supply and sanitation, social security, women and child development, printing and stationery departments.
She used to hold the transport department in the Amarinder Singh-led government.
About an hour after Sultana, PPCC treasurer Gulzar Inder Chahal also stepped down and sent a one-line resignation to CM Channi without giving any reason for his decision.
Notably, actor-turned-politician Chahal was formally appointed as the treasury of the Punjab Congress Committee on September 21, seven days before Channi was sworn in as the new chief minister of the state.
PPCC general secretaries Yoginder Dhingra and Gautam Seth also resigned. “What happened to Sidhu is between him and the high command…but we are here for Punjab…we are concerned with the issues of Punjab,” he said. We stand with Sidhu as he is fighting for Punjab. he said.
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