Voting Poll results, CM Capt Amarinder Singh-Navjot Singh Sidhu duel duel duet keeps Cong country in tenterhooks

Voting Poll results, CM Capt Amarinder Singh-Navjot Singh Sidhu duel duel duet keeps Cong country in tenterhooks

Voting Poll results, CM Capt Amarinder Singh-Navjot Singh Sidhu duel duel duet keeps Cong country in tenterhooks

Chandigarh : Political circles in the Congress are abuzz with a strong link between the impending May 2 poll results in four states, especially Assam and West Bengal, and scaled up intensity of war of words between Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh and his former Cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu over the delay in giving justice to the families of Kotkapura firing victims.

Closed for reconciliation

CM Capt Amarinder Singh has closed doors on Navjot Singh Sidhu for any reconciliation. Being a tall leader, the party high command seems to have no alternative to Capt. This could result in median-line approach to handle the crisis as the new body of the PPCC has to be announced

It is being said the poll results would not only impact the party at the national level but also have a direct bearing on the permutation and combinations in the state Congress, especially in light of party MLAs teaming up to seek time-bound action from the Chief Minister against the perpetrators of the sacrilege and the subsequent police firing incidents.

In an apparent anticipation of party high command’s intervention in Punjab after the May 2 poll results in the four states, the cricketer-turned-politician has stepped up his attack on the Chief Minister while riding on the emotive issue of Sikhs that saw two people dying in the Kotkapura police firing.

Steps up attack on Capt

In an apparent anticipation of party high command’s intervention in Punjab after the May 2 poll results in four states, Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu has stepped

up his attack on Capt Amarinder over the emotive issue of the Kotkapura police firing case

Voting Poll results, CM Capt Amarinder Singh-Navjot Singh Sidhu duel duel duet keeps Cong country in tenterhooks

Voting Poll results, CM Capt Amarinder Singh-Navjot Singh Sidhu duel duel duet keeps Cong country in tenterhooks

On the other hand, the Chief Minister by taking Sidhu’s rant against him as gross indiscipline, has closed doors on him for any reconciliation. “To ensure that Sidhu leaves the party at the earliest, leaders close to the Chief Minister are expected to increase their attack on him before the party high command intervenes and balances out things in the state Congress,” said a source in the party. The attack on Sidhu could be scaled up to a level as had happened in 2019, before he resigned as the Local Bodies Minister from the Council of Ministers.

Ministers, MPs and other MLAs who speak against the CM also amount to indiscipline, it is being pointed out. Sources close to Sidhu said he was digging in his heels, hoping timely intervention by the party high command. Being a tall leader, the party high command seems to have no alternative to Capt Amarinder Singh. This could result in median-line approach to handle the crisis as the new body of the PPCC has to be announced.

The party high command through Punjab affairs in-charge Harish Rawat had been trying to rehabilitate Sidhu in the mainstream politics. The CM has already stated that he did not agree to Sidhu’s demand for the post of PPCC president or Deputy CM with portfolio of Home Department as there were other senior ministers and leaders in the party. So far most of the ministers and MLAs are silent on the issue.