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Amarinder new Punjab Cong chief; Soni to lead campaign panel for 2017 polls

  •   Fri, Nov 27 2015 08:22:26 PM

New Delhi, Nov 27, 2015 (PTI) Former chief minister Amarinder Singh has been appointed as the new Punjab Congress president, replacing Pratap Singh Bajwa, whose resignation was accepted by party president Sonia Gandhi yesterday.

A release issued by AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said that "the Congress president has appointed Capt Amarinder Singh, MP, as president of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee with immediate effect".

The move is "consequent to the resignation of Sardar Pratap Singh Bajwa from the presidentship" of the Punjab unit of the party, the release added.

Further, as part of Punjab Congress's restructuring, senior party leader and former Union minister Ambika Soni has been appointed the chairperson of its Campaign Committee for the 2017 Punjab Assembly elections.

Also, former minister Lal Singh, a prominent OBC face in the state, will be the new senior vice-president of its state unit while Dalit leader Sadhu Singh Dharamsot will be the vice -chairman of the Campaign Committee.

Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu, the grandson of former state chief minister Beant Singh, has been appointed as the convener of the Campaign Committee.
Further appointments will be made shortly, Dwivedi's statement added.
  

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  • raghavendra m k, mumbai maharashtra

    Fri, Nov 27 2015

    Let us analyse the bihar election in proper perceptive. Lalu was successful railway minister in this country. he has been called by IIM Ahmadabad and Harvard university. He is qualified man post graduate political science. But only he delivers humorous speeches. The winning of political front led Nitish in bihar against the communal agenda by BJP and other state level issues. The cast combination was already existing in bihar but it din't made lalu and his front to win lok sabha election. Now coming to Punjab by just changing the leader of state congress can dream of coming to power. There already AAP is growing and taking people's issue and targeting AKAlIS's for mismanagement of the state administration.There is a hope for AAP in Punjab.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Fri, Nov 27 2015

    Even Lalu can win in Punjab ...

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  • Langoolacharya., Belman/Washington,DC.

    Fri, Nov 27 2015

    No he can't...we don't have many Yadav's in Punjab...

    For Lalu to win we need 14% Yadav...17 percent muslims...4% Kurmis...its possible in UP he can try there...

    ...JH...

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Fri, Nov 27 2015

    Langool, people are fully fed up and only want a change ...

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