Ambika Soni declines Punjab CM post supply
Congress chief Ambika Soni on Sunday declined the supply for the post of the following Punjab chief minister, sources stated. Citing health causes, Ambika Soni right now stated she will not be preserving nicely and doesn’t want to take up the post. This got here after Amarinder Singh on Saturday resigned as Punjab chief minister, saying he felt “humiliated” on the manner the celebration dealt with the infighting within the state unit.
A decision requesting Sonia Gandhi to choose the following chief minister was handed unanimously in a gathering of the Congress Legislature Party. Party sources stated the title of the brand new chief is prone to be introduced in a CLP assembly on Sunday.
Meanwhile, former Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar, present state unit president Navjot Singh Sidhu and Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa are frontrunners for the post of the CLP chief, the sources stated.
Names of Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Brahm Mohindra, Vijay Inder Singla, Punjab Congress working president Kuljit Singh Nagra and MP Partap Singh Bajwa are additionally doing the rounds.
Some sources, nevertheless, have stated the Navjot Singh Sidhu was not in rivalry for the following CLP chief.
Senior Congress chief Ajay Maken, who was one of many two central observers deputed by the celebration, knowledgeable the media after the assembly Saturday night that 78 out of complete of 80 celebration legislators have been current within the CLP assembly, which he known as was “very important”.
He stated a decision praising and thanking the contribution of Amarinder Singh in direction of Punjab and the Congress was additionally unanimously handed on the assembly.
