By PTI
CHANDIGARH: More than 20 Punjab Congress leaders, together with former state unit chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, held a gathering at Sultanpur Lodhi in Kapurthala district on Saturday.
Sukhpal Khaira, Congress MLA from Bholath who was current on the assembly, mentioned that it was a part of efforts to make sure a speedy revival of the get together in Punjab.
He mentioned like-minded Cong MLAs, ex-MLAs, 2022 meeting election candidates and the previous PCC president converged on the residence of former MLA Navtej Singh Cheema at Sultanpur Lodhi.
“‘We’re sure party will take future decisions on merit n honesty in accordance with the mandate of ‘Badlav’ (change),” mentioned Khaira in a tweet.
Sidhu, who stop as Punjab unit chief on the path of Congress president Sonia Gandhi following the get together’s defeat within the current meeting polls, shared an image of the assembly on Twitter. “We will fight for Punjab’s rights and truth with good intentions and honesty,” he tweeted.
Other distinguished leaders current on the assembly have been MLA Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal, Rakesh Pandey, Mohinder Singh Kaypee, Ashwani Sekhri, Nazar Singh Manshahia, Pirmal Singh Dhaula and Davinder Singh Ghubaya.
The Congress acquired a drubbing within the recently-held Punjab meeting polls because it may win solely 18 seats. The Aam Aadmi Party stormed to energy by bagging 92 seats of the 117-assembly segments within the state.
Navjot Sidhu was additionally defeated by AAP candidate and political greenhorn Jeevan Jyot Kaur from Amritsar East seat.
Sidhu had resigned because the get together’s Punjab chief after Congress president Sonia Gandhi had requested its state unit chiefs in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Punjab and Manipur to place of their papers following the ballot debacle.
