Congress May Name 2 Deputies In Addition To Amarinder Singh Replacement

Chandigarh:

The Congress – scrabbling to revive management in Punjab after a “humiliated” Amarinder Singh resigned as Chief Minister yesterday – is more likely to title two deputies along with a alternative.

Sources, nevertheless, have stated the deputies will depend upon who will get the nod for the state’s prime publish.

Sources near Punjab Congress chief Navjot Sidhu – whose extended and hostile spat with Amarinder Singh triggered the latter’s resignation and precipitated this disaster – had been quoted by information company ANI as saying ‘no matter title is agreed for Chief Minister, it is going to be accompanied by two deputies… nevertheless, selections of deputies will depend upon who is called Chief Minister’.

The Amarinder Singh-Navjot Sidhu feud dates again to the 2017 Meeting election, when Mr Sidhu hoped to be made Deputy Chief Minister however was reportedly denied the publish by Mr Singh.

Veteran MP Ambika Soni, believed to be the get together’s first selection to switch Mr Singh, turned down the supply; Ms Soni reportedly stated “no” at a late evening assembly with Rahul Gandhi; she harassed on the “ramifications” of a non-Sikh chief, notably with an election due subsequent yr.

The Congress had referred to as for a gathering of its legislature get together this morning however that has been postponed to 1 pm after Ms Soni declined to be thought-about for Chief Minister.

Sources have now stated the CLP, or Congress Legislature Social gathering, will solely be summoned as soon as all MLAs have been consulted and a shortlist of names acceptable to all is drawn up.

Sukhjinder Randhawa, a cupboard minister and the Dera Baba Nanak MLA is being thought-about.

Different probables are ex-state unit bosses Sunil Jakhar and Pratap Singh Bajwa,and Ravneet Singh Bittu, grandson of late former Chief Minister Beant Singh.

The 2022 Punjab Meeting election is seen as a crucial check for a Congress making an attempt to concurrently retain energy in one of many few states it nonetheless controls and retain its picture because the principal nationwide opposition to the BJP.

With enter from ANI