Nearly month after Sidhu's resignation, Amrinder Singh Brar appointed as Punjab Congress chief
Highlights
- The Congress party on Saturday appointed leader Amrinder Singh Brar as new PCC chief.
- The development comes nearly a month after Sidhu resigned from the position.
- Brar is a Congress MLA who served as the Transport Minister of the state of Punjab.
The Congress party on Saturday appointed leader Amrinder Singh Brar (Raja Warring) as the new chief of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC). The development comes nearly a month after Sidhu resigned from the position after Sonia Gandhi sought his resignation.
Brar is a Congress MLA who served as the Transport Minister of the state of Punjab under Congress rule, led by former CM Charanjit Singh Channi.
While Warring, who was the Transport Minister in the last Congress government, won the recent assembly elections from the Gidderbaha constituency, Bajwa was elected as an MLA from the Qadian assembly constituency.
The appointments bear the stamp of Rahul Gandhi who had named Raja Warring as Indian Youth Congress president and Pratap Singh Bajwa as Punjab Congress chief a few years ago.
Warring inherits the difficult task of uniting various factions of the Congress in Punjab.
Sonia Gandhi has also appointed former minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu as the Working President of Punjab Congress and SC leader Raj Kumar Chabbewal as deputy CLP leader in the state assembly.
Following the party's drubbing in the five states that went to polls recently, Sonia Gandhi had asked these state Congress chiefs to resign.
She had also revamped the Manipur and Goa units.
