It was an intriguing sight in Chandigarh on Monday. The freshly minted Congress Punjab president Navjot Singh Sidhu went on a door-to-door assembly spree with a battery of MLAs and senior Congress leaders, slicing desserts, feeding sweets, patting the backs and most significantly, constructing the brand new ‘Sidhu Staff’.
There was neither a gathering with Captain Amarinder Singh nor a congratulatory message from the CM but. However the brand new Sidhu XI, with loads of reserves within the true cricketing sense, appears to be taking form. The highest order listed below are the MLAs who have been the primary to land at his Patiala residence on Monday morning after the large announcement got here via final night time – Amarinder Singh Raja, Kulbir Singh Zira and Nirmal Singh Shutrana. Raja and Zira have been in reality with Sidhu in his automobile all day as he went to Chandigarh, with Raja driving Sidhu’s automobile. Halfway, MLA Madan Lal Jalalpur additionally joined Sidhu in his automobile.
Jalandhar MLA and former Indian Hockey captain, Pargat Singh, is already in Sidhu’s prime order by sticking by the facet of his sportsman buddy when nobody else did. A brand new facet of Sidhu additionally appears to be on show now on the recommendation of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra – that of a pacesetter who was earlier seen as conceited and a loner, to 1 who’s proactively reaching out to MLAs and leaders now and himself going to their properties moderately than train protocol that the MLAs come and meet him first.
Sidhu’s Skilled Center Order
The primary cease of Sidhu on Monday was the Mohali residence of Kuljit Singh Nagra, MLA and one of many 4 newly appointed working presidents whom Sidhu warmly hugged. Nagra organized a cake and sweets for Sidhu and stated a brand new starting was being made in Punjab with Sidhu’s “game-changer” appointment. Sidhu took Nagra alongside to his subsequent cease, the home of Punjab Congress Youth President Brinder Dhillon.
Dhillon and Nagra’s assist to Sidhu is essential for him to get the Congress cadre to rally for him and so they may type the dependable middle-order of Sidhu’s staff. Each of then, together with Raja and Zira, signify the younger Congress within the state. All these leaders then went to fulfill former Congress President Sunil Jakhar and Cupboard Minister Razia Sultana earlier than converging for Excessive Tea on the home of Minister Tripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa who appears the brand new robust anchor in Sidhu’s staff.
It was at Bajwa’s residence that 25 MLAs posed for a bunch {photograph} with Sidhu, sending out a powerful message of the brand new dynamics in Punjab. Whereas practically half of the Congress state management was at Bajwa’s residence in Sector 2 of Chandigarh with Sidhu, lower than 200 meters away the CM was additionally at his official residence assembly his loyalist leaders. However there isn’t any news but of a gathering between Sidhu and the Chief Minister.
Sidhu additionally visited former Congress CM Rajinder Kaur Bhattal and later additionally went to Punjab Congress Bhawan in Chandigarh.
The Decrease Order
Sidhu can also be engaged on getting these ignored by Captain Amarinder Singh on his facet. Earlier than coming to Chandigarh on Monday, Sidhu went to homes of Congress MLAs in Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Patiala to get them on his facet. MLA Pargat Singh was with Sidhu on Sunday when he went to fulfill MLA Bawa Henry and his father, former minister Avtar Henry to hunt their assist. MLA Sangat Singh Gilziyan had additionally reached Henry’s residence to fulfill Sidhu on Sunday. Sidhu additionally met two different MLAs, Gurkirat Singh Kotli and Lakhbir Singh Lakha on Sunday.
One other minister rising as a powerful anchor for Sidhu’s new staff is Sukhjinder Randhawa, who accompanied Sidhu when he met MLAs Madan Lal Jalalpur and Nirmal Singh Shaturana in Patiala on Sunday. At his assembly with Jalalpur, MLAs Virender Pahada and Darshan Singh Brar have been current. Sidhu personally known as up all these MLAs, expressing his want to fulfill them, taking a lot of them aback earlier than he landed at their properties.
Sidhu is about to fulfill extra MLAs as he leaves for Amritsar on Tuesday for a go to to the Golden Temple and Durgiana Temple, the place a grand welcome awaits him in his previous constituency. Most from the brand new ‘Sidhu Staff’ are already calling him the brand new huge hope of Punjab, projecting him because the face and saying the demotivated cadre of the Congress in Punjab has been re-energised with Sidhu’s appointment because the state congress chief.
A studied silence in Captain Amarinder Singh’s camp continues.
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