The president of the Congress Unit of Punjab will be Navjot Singh Sidhu, who will take over Sunil Jakhar on Friday. Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and other leaders of the party, reported news agencies, will attend the so-called installation ceremony to sign a truce in the dissension-related party.
President of Congress Sonia Gandhi, despite strong opposition from Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, on Sunday appointed Sidhu as the new Chief Punjab Party Unit Chief. Furthermore, four working presidents – Sangat Singh Gilzian, Singh Singh Danny Sukhwinder, Pavan Goel, and Kuljit Singh Nagra – were appointed to help Sidhu in the run up to next year’s Punjab elections.
The Punjab chief minister, Navjot Singh Sidhu, in a separate letter called upon “the new [congress] team to come and bless it.” He reiterated his commitment to the state’s people, saying that his only objective is to meet the 18-point agenda of the high-level Congress in Punjab for “people.”
“My resolve and commitment on Punjab’s issues and fulfilling high command’s pro-people 18-point agenda for the welfare of every Punjabi is well-known to you and all,” Sidhu wrote in the letter, issued in an apparent bid to make up his differences with the chief minister. “Thus as the eldest of our Punjab Congress family, I request you to please come and bless the new team.”
The cricket politician recently attacked the chief minister in state deprivation cases, Sidhu and Amarinder Singh have been in the loggerheads for some time. Much of the tension between the two politicians was flared in January this year, when a test report on the Kotkapura police shooting in 2015 was quashed by the Punjab and the Haryana High Court.
After leaving the BJP prior to the 2017 assembly polls, Sidhu joined the Congregation, attacking the head minister in his tweets about alleged judicial delay in sacrilegious incidents in 2015 and following police incidents. Later in 2019 after he was dismissed, the Amritsar legislator resigned as a minister
While the sixty-two Congress parliamentarians who had met at a cricket-turned politician’s residence this Wednestag in a power show said there was no need to offer an apology, as the party stands “united” while Amarinder Singh had previously asked Sidhu an apology for what he called “demogatory” tweets.
