Navjot Sidhu meets Priyanka Gandhi amid Punjab Congress infighting
India | June 30, 2021 12:32 ISTCongress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday met senior party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra at latter's residence in Delhi.
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday met senior party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra at latter's residence in Delhi.
Rahul Gandhi has been meeting party leaders from Punjab to get their views on the political situation in the state and the steps needed to strengthen the party ahead of the 2022 assembly polls.
Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu leaves from his residence in Patiala to meet Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi in Delhi
Amid infighting in the Punjab Congress, sulking party leader Navjot Singh Sidhu is expected to meet Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh met a three-member All India Congress Committee (AICC) panel, which was constituted to end the ongoing factionalism in the state unit prior to the Assembly Elections in 2022.
Sidhu had quit the Amarinder Singh cabinet in July 2019 after being divested of the local bodies portfolio and has been in the political wilderness since.
Sidhu had quit the Amarinder Singh cabinet in July 2019 after being divested of the local bodies portfolio and has been in the political wilderness since.
Amarinder Singh is ready to accomodate Sidhu as deputy CM, but the Amritsar East MLA is not agreeing to the offer, sources said.
Amarinder Singh will on Tuesday meet a three-member AICC Committee in Delhi which was formed to end the ongoing factionalism in Punjab unit.
Sidhu had quit the Amarinder Singh cabinet in July 2019 after being divested of the local bodies portfolio and has been in the political wilderness since.
Sidhu is at loggerheads with Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and both have publicly given statements against each other in the media, with Sidhu criticising the chief minister for not bringing the guilty to book in the Kotkapura sacrilege incident.
Sidhu has been at loggerheads with Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and has publicly attacked him over an SIT report on the sacrilege issue in the state.
Sources revealed that most of the MLAs have voted in favour of Captain Amarinder leading the party in the next Assembly election scheduled to be held next year.
Amarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu have been engaged in a bitter war of words. Sidhu has publicly attacked the chief minister over an SIT report on the sacrilege issue in Punjab.
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh on Friday appeared before the three-member panel headed by Mallikarjun Kharge to resolve differences with Navjot Singh Sidhu.
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh on Friday appeared before the three-member panel headed by Mallikarjun Kharge to resolve differences with Navjot Singh Sidhu.
Missing' posters of Punjab MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu surfaced in Amristar on June 02. The poster floated with the reward of Rs 50,000 to the person who finds Sidhu.
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu won elections in 2017 from Amritsar East.
This open confrontation between two senior leaders of the Congress in Punjab has not gone down well with the central leaders in Delhi, especially with the Assembly elections due next year.
Sidhu resigned from Amarinder Singh's Cabinet in July 2019 after he was divested of the local bodies portfolio. He is in the political wilderness since then.
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