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Sidhu meets Cong panel, says 'people's power' should return to people

  •   Tue, Jun 01 2021 06:31:31 PM

New Delhi, Jun 1 (IANS): Disgruntled Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has targeted Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on various issues including the 2015 Guru Granth Sahib sacrilege case, on Tuesday met the Congress panel for Punjab and presented his version.

Interacting with reporters after the meeting, he said: "I came here on the call of the party high command and I have presented people's voices from grass root level to the part.... my stand on democratic power remains the same that the 'power of the people' must return to the people.

"Every Punjabi must be made a shareholder in Punjab's progress ... Jittega Punjab, Jittegi Punjabiyat, Jittega har Punjabi."

On Monday, Congress state chief Sunil Jakhar met the committee constituted by party president Sonia Gandhi and comprising of Mallikarjun Kharge, J.P. Aggarwal and General Secretary in charge of the state Harish Rawat.

Apart from Jakhar, state ministers Sunder Sham Arora, Charanjit Channi, Aruna Chowdhry, Brahm Mohindra, O.P. Soni, Manpreet Badal, Tript Bajwa, Rana Sodhi and Sukhjinder Randhawa also met the committee.

The committee will continue its consultations on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, sources indicated that there is no talk of replacing the Chief Minister, but only rehabilitation of important leaders. The Congress high command will not take the risk of replacing the Chief Minister as there is nobody of his stature to face the Akali Dal, specially the Badal family. The Congress will have to devise a middle path as 20 MLAs are reported to be unhappy with Amarinder Singh's style of functioning.

Most of these MLAs complained about arbitrary actions by the CM but the key concern was the government's inability to bring to book the culprits in the desecration of Guru Granth Sahib and police firing during peaceful protests in 2015, when the Akali Dal-BJP government was in power, as promised in the party's election manifesto.

Sidhu, who has even dared Amarinder Singh to prove his allegations of joining another party, wants his rehabilitation either in the government or the party. He saying that he is waiting as the high command has intervened.

Sources said the committee will perform a balancing act between the two factions. Sidhu and one non-Sikh leader may be appointed as Deputy Chief Ministers. The committee is expected to submit its report this week itself.

 
  

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  • Satya, Mangalore

    Tue, Jun 01 2021

    Amrinder Singh is the tallest leader of the congress in Punjab. Without him the party is finished. In the past whenever a local leader has become strong, it is the so called geriatric high command that has instigated local revolts to finish the leaders. This time it is no different. These sycophants cannot stand anyone other than the Gandhi's whom they have hidden inside a shell and never allow access to, being a leader. None of these fools can even win a block level election. These are weeds and parasites which have slowly eaten into the party like cancer and even now when the party finds itself in its death throes, they still don't give up. They don't mind completely destroying the party which is in power only in a handful of states. The only thing destroying the congress is the congress itself. This is the time for every selfless opposition leader to unite as the country is in a very bad shape with total mismanagement and yet these fools want to fight between themselves.

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  • Alphonso D'souza, Mumbai

    Tue, Jun 01 2021

    There are good and bad people mixed in Congress. Some of the moves, one watches carefully, it appears that some powers that be, are behind to destroy the party when it just begins to show signs of rejuvenating. It will be sad if this party dies a death because of the sacrilage committed by a few.

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