4 ministers reached Delhi amidst discord over Sidhu: Randhawa, meeting Venugopal, said – Punjab elections will be fought in the name of Congress; Screening committee meeting in the evening

Deputy CM Sukhjinder Randhawa said that Congress will be the face in the elections.

Four ministers reached Delhi amidst discord in Punjab Congress over Navjot Sidhu. These included Deputy CM Sukhjinder Randhawa, Bharat Bhushan Ashu, Pargat Singh and Amarinder Singh Raja Vading. He met party general secretary KC Venugopal in Delhi. After the meeting, Deputy CM Sukhjinder Randhawa said that elections will be fought in the name of Congress in Punjab. Congress will be the face in the election. He gave this answer on the question of Navjot Sidhu’s demand to be made the CM face.

This thing is important because there is an important meeting of the Screening Committee in Delhi in the evening. In this, the first list of Congress candidates can be stamped. Sidhu will also go to Delhi to take part in it. Before that the whole matter has been told to the high command.

Congress is preparing to contest elections in Punjab on the faces of Jakhar, Sidhu and Channi.

Instead of rhetoric, keep talking on the party forum.

According to sources, in this meeting, the Congress high command objected that the leaders were making statements by going directly to the media instead of the party forum or the high command. First minister Ashu had given statements against Sidhu. After that Randhawa also got upset over Sidhu’s attitude. After this he had even said that at present Channi is the CM face. After the election results about any other face, the MLA will decide.

In the meeting, the high command has also taken notice about Randhawa’s offer to leave the Home Ministry for Sidhu. However, these leaders also complained about Sidhu’s attitude that continuous targeting of the government could result in losses in the elections. It is possible that the high command will talk to Sidhu about this.

Ashu and Randhawa Sidhu antagonist, Pargat and Vading close

Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu and Deputy CM Sukhjinder Randhawa, who reached Delhi, are sitting openly against Sidhu these days. They say that Sidhu’s work is not according to the Congress culture. He only talks about ‘I’ when he should talk about the party. Randhawa had even offered to leave the Home Ministry two days ago.

At the same time, the other two ministers Pargat Singh and Amarinder Singh are close to Raja Vading Sidhu. In such a situation, it is believed that the ministers of Sidhu’s side and opposition had come to take the opinion of the high command so that the situation could be clarified on the face-off before the elections.

Racial equations are different, so don’t bet on any one face

Declaring any one leader as the CM face in Punjab, there is a danger of factionalism within the party, but the big problem is with the caste equation. Sidhu is definitely the popular face of Congress in Punjab, who draws the crowd but CM Charanjit Channi is heavy in vote bank maths. CM Channi is the first Scheduled Caste CM of Punjab, through whom Congress is sitting with an eye on 32% SC vote bank.

At the same time, Sunil Jakhar is a big Hindu face, through whom bets are being played on the Hindu vote bank of about 38% of the urban area. Congress wants Sidhu, Channi and Jakhar to be the faces of Congress in the elections. However, sources also say that Congress can also consider declaring one as the face.