With a zilch or little progress made by the state Congress government in fulfilling the pre-poll promises and to end the proxy rule of bureaucracy, the Punjab Congress party’s Member Parliaments (MP), Member Legislative Assembly (MLA), and other leaders have opened up their hearts before the party high command to avoid any embarrassment in the ensuing 2022 assembly elections especially in wake of rising voices of discontentment emerging from within the Punjab Congress leadership.
As the infighting in Punjab Congress escalated and went public to an extent that the vitriolic statements of a few leaders, especially by the former cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu which has brought much embarrassment to chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh, the Congress high command swung into action and decided to give a patient hearing to the brewing discontentment among Congress leaders of Punjab.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi constituted a three-member committee including All India Congress Committee general secretary and in charge of Punjab affairs Harish Rawat, former Delhi MP JP Aggarwal, and leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and tasked them to resolve the crisis before it goes out of hands.
Sources privy to the meetings informed Zee News that a majority of Congress MPs MLAs and other leaders impressed upon the Congress high command to focus on the party faithful and not the fickle coat changers through the three-member clique since the same could bring much damage to the party prospects in 2022 assembly elections.
The indication was clear that dissident leaders, including Sidhu, Pargat Singh etc. should be tamed and made to fall in line and a message should be sent across to others whose actions could prove fatal to party prospects in Punjab.
The Punjab leaders also complained of their continuous neglect by the chief minister and giving the reigns of governance in the hands of the bureaucracy.
