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All India Congress Committee general secretary Harish Rawat has said the next year’s Punjab assembly polls will be fought under the leadership of CM Capt Amarinder Singh, delivering a snub to ministers in the Navjot Singh Sidhu camp who want the CM replaced.
“Navjot Singh Sidhu comes from a different background. We made him the Punjab Congress president with an eye on future. But that doesn’t mean the entire party has been left to him,” Rawat told reporters in Dehradun where four disgruntled ministers and three party MLAs met him.
The Punjab Congress has no dearth of leaders, said Rawat, who is the in-charge of Punjab affairs at the AICC.
“Sidhu ji is there, Amarinder Singh is there, Rajinder Singh Bajwa is there, Sukhjindher Randhava is there and above all a stalwart like Ambika Soni is there. They will all be taken into confidence to resolve the issue,” he said.
Punjab ministers Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and Charanjit Singh Channi besides several Congress MLAs had on Tuesday sought the CM’s removal, saying he failed to fulfil some key poll promises.
The announcement by Rawat is being seen as a setback to the dissident leaders.
