CHANDIGARH: As the Congress struggles to keep its flock together and PCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu insists on announcing the name of the party’s candidate for Punjab CM, election campaign committee chief Sunil Jakhar clarified Has made that the party high command will not announce the CM candidate before the election.
Jakhar said that the announcement of Captain Amarinder Singh as the chief ministerial candidate by the high command ahead of the 2017 elections is an exception. “This time, the high command has decided that Punjab elections will be fought under its collective leadership, whether one likes it or not,” Jakhar said. He said that only elected MLAs would choose their leader.
After the Congress Screening Committee meeting in Delhi on Wednesday, Jakhar said the final list of candidates would be released by the Central Election Committee headed by AICC president Sonia Gandhi.
Despite Jakhar’s claim, Sidhu on Wednesday reiterated that the people of Punjab wanted to know “who and how will get them out of the kichar (mud)? People also want to know about the roadmap,” he told a TV channel. He said that during the 2017 elections, he himself used to ask the Aam Aadmi Party, ‘Where was the bride of their procession? So naturally people will ask me the same question this time too.”
At the same time, Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi indirectly urged people to give him a chance to become CM again in a public meeting in Patiala district. “AAP has said that you have seen Akalis and Congress, so give us a chance. I say you have also seen Captain (Amarinder Singh) and (Prakash Singh) Badal. If you are satisfied with my work in these two months, then give me a chance again,” Channi said.
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