New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi today stated there was no meeting scheduled with Navjot Singh Sidhu a day after the disgruntled Punjab Congress chief‘s crew stated he had a “assembly with the Gandhis”.
On Monday, Navjot Sidhu’s crew had stated he would meet with Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Delhi.
The cricketer-turned-politician had sought a gathering with the Gandhis to press for his calls for in the midst of his intense feud with Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.
So had Amarinder Singh, who was in Delhi final week for a second assembly with the three-member Congress committee fashioned by social gathering chief Sonia Gandhi to resolve the Punjab infighting. His anticipated meet with the Gandhis didn’t occur, regardless that the social gathering made it clear that he’ll lead the Congress within the election.
It was stunning, within the circumstances, when Mr Sidhu’s workplace introduced that he was assembly with the Gandhis in the present day.
Each Amarinder Singh and Mr Sindhu have met with the committee greater than as soon as. Nevertheless, no answer to date has achieved the approval of both.
Mr Sidhi, a former BJP chief who joined the Congress forward of the 2017 Punjab election, has made it clear to the social gathering management that he’s not able to be handled as a “showpiece” through the election marketing campaign. He has repeatedly focused the Chief Minister, accusing him of sidelining him and making an attempt to suppress him.
However regardless of the panel suggesting that Mr Sidhu’s candidates must be given a share within the cupboard and within the Congress in Punjab, Amarinder Singh has been immune to the thought.
Mr Sidhu, 57, who is thought to have Rahul Gandhi’s help and is a vastly in style face with a following each within the state and the social gathering, is amongst a number of leaders difficult Mr Singh’s management within the state.
One of many key triggers of the revolt is the Punjab authorities‘s authorized setback in a 2015 case involving the desecration of the Sikh non secular textual content Guru Granth Sahib and police firing throughout peaceable protests.
Mr Sidhu and different critics of the Chief Minister say his authorities didn’t do sufficient to carry justice within the case.
The newest flashpoint was Mr Singh’s transfer to provide authorities jobs to the sons of two Congress MLAs on “compassionate” grounds — Mr Sidhu had accused him of giving jobs to elitist folks“.
Final week, Mr Sidhu advised NDTV he was able to work with Mr Singh however provided that the Chief Minister met guarantees made to the folks earlier than the final meeting elections.
He additionally refuted allegations that he damaging the social gathering in one of many few states the place it was in energy by itself steam. “It’s damaging when you tackle points like sacrilege? Each MLA is elevating this concern. All 78 MLAs are with me,” he questioned.
