Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh met Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi at her residence in New Delhi in a bid to resolve the disaster that has gripped the state Congress unit months earlier than key Assembly elections.
Following his assembly, Captain Amarinder instructed reporters: “Whatever the Congress President decides on Punjab, we will accept it.”
This was Sonia’s first assembly with the embattled Chief Minister since she had arrange a three-member panel headed by Mallikarjun Kharge to look into the issues within the state unit, triggered by a wave of discontent amongst get together MLAs and senior leaders.
Last week, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and AICC normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi had met Navjot Singh Sidhu, one among Amarinder’s essential detractors, and are stated to have supplied him a distinguished function within the get together to placate him.
As per studies, Priyanka had met Sonia Gandhi earlier than her assembly with CM Amarinder earlier within the day.
The lingering fallout of the 2015 desecration incident at Bargari is the largest stumbling block the get together is going through now. In April, the Punjab and Haryana High Court had quashed the Special Investigation Team set as much as probe the desecration case. Within days, CM Amarinder arrange a brand new SIT. But that did little to assuage the anger on the streets. Soon sufficient, the cracks inside Amarinder’s crew break up extensive open.