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Chandigarh: Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu lost in the latest round of his tussle with Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday. While Sidhu’s advisor Malvinder Singh Mali, one of the two team members facing heat for his controversial remarks, resigned on Friday, calling Amarinder “a big relief” in the show of strength by Congress MLAs and MPs. ” Found it.
Cabinet minister Rana Gurmeet Sodhi, a longtime loyalist of Amarinder, hosted a dinner for the chief minister’s supporters on Thursday. According to CM’s media advisor Raveen Thukral, there were 58 MLAs in the dinner. The party has 80 MLAs in the 117-member state assembly. Eight Congress MPs from the state were also present.
‘I invited like-minded people’ @INCPunjab MP and MLA for dinner. 58 MLAs and 8 MPs gladly accepted my invitation and expressed confidence that under whose leadership the party will win the 2022 elections. @capt_amarinder. The journey has started today’: @iranasodhi pic.twitter.com/HkHYIJpzU7
— Raveen Thukral (@RT_MediaAdvPBCM) 26 August 2021
Mali’s resignation – seen by the Sidhu camp as a move to control the damage caused by his comments – was regarded by Amarinder’s supporters as a victory amid a battle for supremacy in the Punjab Congress ahead of next year’s elections. has gone.
“The dinner performance, the largest among the 80 Congress MLAs (in the 117-seat assembly), is a major relief in the ongoing battle for Amarinder. But is this the turning point? Only time will tell,” said a senior party leader.
The dinner came over a weekend in which Sidhu reportedly rallied MLAs and ministers against Amarinder. On Wednesday, over three dozen MLAs, led by four ministers, met Congress’ Punjab in-charge Harish Rawat to put forth their “complaints” against Amarinder.
However, later speaking to ThePrint, Rawat Said The 2022 Punjab elections will be fought under Amarinder’s leadership, even as he said that grievances of all sections of the state organization will be addressed.
‘perfect answer’
Sidhu on the back foot Allegedly In a public meeting in Amritsar on Friday, the Congress demanded to issue a warning. He said, ‘The party high command should give me freedom to take decisions, otherwise I will give a befitting reply.
Former academician and journalist Mali, who was appointed as Sidhu’s advisor on August 11, also took an aggressive stand in his resignation letter, which he posted on Facebook.
“Punjab, the cooperation of the Punjabi community, and the anti-Sikh forces that do not tolerate the emerging Punjab model, problem-based and solution-based politics of transparency and accountability, emerged in the backdrop of the long-standing peaceful peasant movement It is the nefarious intent to derail the dialogue that has begun to take shape and push me to jump into the struggle with folded hands, which is not acceptable to me and rejecting it, I humbly request that I I withdraw my consent given to suggest Navjot. Singh Sidhu (sic),” he said.
Mali had courted controversy for his comments about the conditions in Jammu and Kashmir, which he described as an “open prison”. She has also been criticized for her Facebook cover photo – a caricature of the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi standing atop a mound of skulls, with a weapon in her hand, which was published as the cover of a magazine in 1989. appears to have happened.
Mali on Thursday tried to defend the cartoon, saying it was from 1985, after Operation Bluestar and the anti-Sikh riots.
His Facebook feed is flooded with criticism of Amarinder.
Rawat in light of Jammu and Kashmir’s comments Said If Sidhu does not remove the gardener, he will have to be forced to do so.
There is a battle going on between Sidhu and Amarinder for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Ever since Sidhu has been appointed state party chief, he has been projecting himself as a possible alternative to Amarinder as chief minister.
(Edited by Sunanda Ranjan)
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