“My stand remains the same,” introduced former Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu after the top of his assembly with the three-member AICC panel amplifying an enormous problem the Congress excessive command faces in resolving the Punjab unit disaster.
A visibly assured Sidhu arrived on the assembly venue round 11.30 am and on the two-hour-long assembly is reported to have reiterated his stand on the Kotkapura firing challenge and the way the Punjab authorities lead by Captain Amarinder Singh had ‘failed’ to ‘expose’ the position of Badals within the firing case.
The ex-minister who stop the Cabinet in July 2019 after being divested of the native our bodies portfolio for energy had chosen to remain within the political wilderness until the excessive courtroom trashed the government-appointed SIT and absolved Badals within the case. He had launched a direct assault on the Chief Minister just about accusing him of siding with the Akali Dal management precipitating a disaster within the Punjab unit.
“Upon being summoned by the Congress high command, I came here to appraise the AICC committee about Punjab. I have alerted the committee to the truth of Punjab and eloquently echoed the voice of the people of the State, of the grassroots. The most important issue is that my previous stand on Punjab and issues concerning Punjab remains unchanged,” Sidhu stated after assembly the committee.
Sidhu stated his high agenda is that the ability of the folks of Punjab, the taxes they pay, ought to return to the folks in no matter kind potential. “Today, I have shone light on the truth. Truth can be eclipsed but it cannot be defeated. Punjab will win. We have to ensure the victory of Punjab. Every citizen of Punjab has to be made a participant in governance. We have to defeat all anti-Punjab forces,” stated the MLA from East Amritsar, including: “Punjab, Punjabiyat and each Punjabi will win.”
The AICC panel can be assembly MLAs in batches of 25 day by day and is predicted to satisfy the chief minister on Thursday earlier than submitting a report back to the excessive command.
Sources stated that with Sidhu sticking to his stand, the panel must do a tight-rope stroll whereas evolving a consensus within the social gathering. While it can’t afford to dislodge an incumbent chief minister of a State which it guidelines with none help from allies, the social gathering can sick afford to disregard the ‘vote catching’ talents of Sidhu at a time when it was being drubbed in polls throughout the nation.
The social gathering excessive command can be weighing its different choices as properly together with two Deputy CMs, certainly one of which may very well be a Dalit and the opposite might go to Sidhu. The social gathering sources additionally indicated that the panel would additionally have a look at the choice of handing over the reins of the Punjab Congress to Sidhu, although there are inherent fears that it might end in two energy centres within the State, one thing that the social gathering can’t afford as a run-up to the polls.
With the chief minister anticipated to satisfy the panel on Thursday, it now stays to be seen how a lot ‘flexibility’ he exhibits in providing a truce to his ex-cabinet colleague.
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