Hours before the swearing-in ceremony of new CM Charanjit Singh Channi, Punjab Congress in-charge Harish Rawat said that the upcoming state assembly elections will be fought under Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu who is ‘very popular’.
Speaking to ANI, Rawat said, “It will be decided by the Congress president, but given the circumstances, elections will be fought with the Chief Minister’s cabinet under Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, whose chief is Navjot Singh Sidhu, who is very popular.”
His statement, however, did not go down well with veteran Punjab Congress leader Sunil Jakhar, who called the claim “baffling”. “On the swearing-in day of Sh @Charnjit_channi as Chief Minister, Mr Rawats’s statement that “elections will be fought under Sidhu”, is baffling. It’s likely to undermine CM’s authority but also negate the very ‘raison d’être’ of his selection for this position,” Jakhar wrote on Twitter.
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