After Navjot Sidhu, Captain Amarinder has called emergency meeting with close Ministers

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Neha Kumari
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Punjab

The turmoil in Punjab Congress is not taking its name to end. Now Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and former minister Navjot Singh Sidhu have started holding meetings with the leaders. After the media got the news of Navjot Singh Sidhu's camp meeting, all the MLAs, ministers and leaders associated with Sidhu camp came out in their respective vehicles from the house of Cabinet Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Sector 39, Chandigarh.

According to sources, a fresh meeting will be held at some unknown place. After the meeting of Navjot Singh Sidhu, Captain Amarinder Singh has also called an emergency meeting of his close MLAs, Ministers and MPs at his Farm House in Siswan, Mohali.

Congress general secretary Harish Rawat on Thursday indicated that the ongoing tussle in the party's Punjab unit would end soon, saying a formula to resolve the crisis would come out soon and Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and former minister Navjot Singh Sidhu would work together. The party's Punjab in-charge Rawat also said that Amarinder Singh would continue to serve as the chief minister and Congress would contest the elections while in his position.

"We are working on a formula by which both the chief minister and Sidhu work together," he told reportersSources say that Sidhu can be made the President of the State Congress Committee and along with him a Dalit and a Hindu leader can be given the responsibility of working president so that apart from ending the political crisis, the caste and regional equation can also be settled. Can you

It is noteworthy that for the last few months, there has been open discord in the Punjab Congress. Former minister Navjot Singh Sidhu and some other leaders have opened a front against Chief Minister Amarinder Singh. In order to resolve the discord in the party, the Congress high command had constituted a three-member committee under the chairmanship of Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge.

This committee took the opinion of more than 100 leaders of Punjab Congress including the Chief Minister and then submitted its report to the high command. Recently, Amarinder Singh met Congress President Sonia Gandhi. Sidhu also met former party president Rahul Gandhi.

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