Manasa Maddila & Aashwin Shanker, Mumbai Uncensored, 22nd July 2021:
Navjot Singh Sidhu has been made the President of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) after weeks of tussle between Mr Sidhu, Captain Amrinder Singh and Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi.
Navjot Singh Sidhu has been elevated as President of Punjab . In a series of tweets, Sidhu offered thanks to Congress pioneers.
After getting selected as Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) President, the cricketer turned politician, Navjot Singh Sidhu gave the main reaction on Twitter by posting his dad’s image with Jawaharlal Nehru. Sidhu said that his dad was a ‘Congress specialist who left an illustrious family, joined the opportunity battle and was condemned to death’. In a progression of tweets, the recently chosen party Chief of Punjab offered thanks towards his rise.
Featuring the ‘energetic work’ of his dad, Punjab Congress head Mr. Sidhu said that he will work with ‘each individual from Congress family’.
Sidhu marked his thankful message with the hashtag ‘Jittega Punjab’ (Punjab will win) mission and asserted, ‘will work along every member of Congress family in Punjab’.
The Congress party in Punjab was in major political trouble ahead of the Assembly Elections next year. The tension between Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and dissident pioneer Navjot Singh Sidhu has not been put to rest as of yet. Captain Amrinder Singh has demanded that Mr. Sidhu should publicly apologise to the Chief Minister over his inflammatory tweets.
However Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has successfully won Navjot’s support by making him president of the Punjab congress. Few days ago Navjot had posted tweets about AAP’s work in Punjab and Delhi while mentioning that Punjab CM Amrinder Singh should learn from him. This was the other reason why the Congress in Delhi had agreed to Navjot Singh Sidhu’s demands.
Sonia Gandhi had likewise shaped a board of trustees containing Rajya Sabha LoP Mallikarjun Kharge, ex-Delhi MP JP Agarwal, and AICC general secretary accountable for Punjab Harish Rawat on May 28 to get a resolution to the matter. Since last month, the board has met different partners including MLAs, Ministers and the CM to discover their perspectives in front of the 2022 Assembly political race. While Amarinder Singh has asserted on various events that he will respect any choice taken by Gandhi, he has not openly responded to the declaration up until this point.
Further advancement from sources indicated that the declaration regarding Sidhu’s arrangement was not imparted to Amarinder Singh by the Party’s initiative. The choice comes as a significant misfortune to the Chief Minister and other Congress pioneers who opposed the get-together’s choice to lift the cricketer-went legislator to the state party unit boss. It is persevering to take note of that 4 days ago, (July 18), 10 gathering MLAs in a letter had asked the Congress High Command to “not to let down” the Chief Minister “because of whose tenacious endeavors the gathering stands all around dug in” in the state.
