Punjab CM Holds Lunch Assembly with Congress Leaders from City Areas


File photograph of Punjab CM Amarinder Singh.

The assembly comes quickly after Navjot Singh Sidhu met occasion leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Delhi

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  • Final Up to date:July 01, 2021, 21:06 IST
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Chief Minister Amarinder Singh met senior Congress leaders from Punjab’s city areas over lunch Thursday, amid hypothesis that the occasion’s state unit is about for a revamp. “Had a fruitful dialogue with senior Congress colleagues from city areas of Punjab. We now have taken their suggestions to strengthen the occasion on the grassroots degree,” Singh tweeted after the assembly at his official residence right here.

The assembly comes quickly after former Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has been brazenly concentrating on Amarinder Singh, met occasion leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Delhi. There’s hypothesis that the cricketer-turned-politician might once more be given a outstanding position within the occasion or the federal government in Punjab. The leaders invited to the CM’s lunch represented Punjab’s city areas and have been largely Hindus, amid discuss that the Congress wanted to be extra consultant in Punjab because it prepares for subsequent yr’s Meeting polls. Amarinder Singh has been more and more below assault by Sidhu and a piece of occasion leaders over the 2015 desecration of Sikh scriptures and different points.

Amongst those that took half within the assembly have been state cupboard ministers Brahm Mohindra, Vijay Inder Singla, O P Soni, Rana Gurmit Sodhi and Bharat Bhushan Ashu. MPs Manish Tewari and Gurjit Singh Aujla and MLA Raj Kumar Verka, and several other district-level leaders participated. Minister Vijay Inder Singla described the assembly as interactive. MLA Raj Kumar Verka stated it was referred to as to debate city points. He stated the CM directed the departments involved to resolve points associated to city areas raised throughout the assembly. Former Batala MLA Ashwani Sekhri, who had indicated final week that he may be part of the Akali Dal, additionally attended the assembly. Verka stated Sekhri’s considerations have been addressed. The three-time MLA had determined towards leaving the Congress after talking with the CM and different occasion leaders on June 27. He had been sad over the alleged interference of cupboard minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa within the Batala meeting constituency.

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