Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has advised the Congress committee in Delhi final week that Navjot Singh Sidhu can’t be made the Deputy Chief Minister or the state occasion chief and guaranteed motion within the sacrilege-police firing circumstances can be taken effectively earlier than the Punjab polls.
Sources mentioned Singh, who’s gearing as much as take the occasion into elections underneath his management and mentioned elevation of Sidhu as Deputy CM or PCC Chief may upset management equations within the state unit.
“The CM has said that Sidhu can rejoin the Cabinet and a post is vacant for him. He has made it clear that Sidhu cannot be made the PCC chief as there are many other senior leaders in the party unit who are eligible for that post. Also, both positions – the CM and the PCC Chief – cannot go to Jat Sikhs,” a supply conscious of the deliberations advised News18.
Singh actually pointed to the committee that Sidhu has been on type of a rebellious path recently by making statements in opposition to his authorities.
The reality isn’t misplaced upon the High Command that it’s Captain Amarinder Singh who has at all times received elections for the Congress in Punjab and put up an important efficiency within the final Lok Sabha elections, sources added.
Other Congress leaders, who appeared earlier than the committee, additionally didn’t appear to again Sidhu for both of the 2 high posts (deputy CM or PCC chief) however at the least two of them advised News18 that the High Command appears inclined to retain Sidhu in a decent place, in all probability with a outstanding function within the marketing campaign, and didn’t need him to defect to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
Another supply mentioned that the CM had actually requested the committee to rein in leaders like Sidhu and Partap Singh Bajwa who had been appearing like opposition events in Punjab whereas SAD, AAP and BJP have fallen by the sidelines.
On the delicate subject of delay in motion within the sacrilege-police firing circumstances of 2015, the CM has assured the committee {that a} new SIT is on the job and motion may comply with in a few a months, effectively earlier than the Punjab elections scheduled in eight months.
Besides, he has knowledgeable the committee that his authorities can be contemplating a Special Leave Petition (SLP) within the Supreme Court in opposition to the High Court’s determination of quashing the sooner SIT’s probe into the incidents.
Most Congress leaders who appeared earlier than the committee mentioned the delay in motion within the case was a significant concern and will price the occasion within the upcoming elections as the identical was a giant pre-poll promise within the 2017 Punjab elections. A supply mentioned a lot of the probe was full earlier than the HC intervened to quash it because the Badal household questioned the pre-conceived notion of the probe given a police officer of the sooner SIT had been very vocal.
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