The senior Congress leader Harish Rawat said the party will fight the 2022 assembly poll in the state under the leadership of the current chief minister Amarinder Singh. He further informed that Singh and party leader Navjot Singh Sindhu will work together for the party and a formula has worked out on the matter.
ANI quoted Rawat “Captain Amarinder Singh is our chief minister for the last four-and-a-half years and we will go to the elections under his leadership,” The former Uttarakhand chief minister said when asked if Sidhu would be made the Punjab Congress chief said, “He and Sidhu will work together. A formula has been made around this. We have also worked out a formula for working presidents,”
Rawat’s comments also came a day after election strategist Prashant Kishor held talks with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and senior leaders Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi. Kishor has been appointed by Singh as his advisor ahead of the election. Rawat had earlier held a meeting with Rahul on Tuesday as the central leadership’s bid to resolve the months-long tussle between the chief minister and cricketer-turned-politician.
A three-member committee, headed by Rajya Sabha member Mallikarjun Kharge, that has been set up to settle the infighting in the Punjab unit, met all the party’s legislators to resolve the crisis ahead of the upcoming state elections. While Singh has also met Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Sidhu has spoken to Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
HT had reported earlier that Singh’s leadership was not challenged and Sonia told him “to take Sidhu into confidence.” Singh was also told that the party has to be united ahead of the Punjab assembly elections and to be accessible to his party colleagues.
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