Senior Congress leader Harish Chaudhary, who is AICC in-charge of Punjab affairs, has written a letter to party president Sonia Gandhi urging her to take action against Navjot Singh Sindhu.
In a letter written to Gandhi, Chaudhary said Sidhu “continuously criticised the functioning of the Congress government terming it corrupt and hand in glove with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).”
Further talking about the recently-concluded Punjab Assembly elections, which Congress lost to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Chaudhary said, “As the party was fighting the elections, it was inappropriate for Shri Sidhu to set sucha precedent. In spite of my repeated advice to Shri Sidhu to avoid such activities, he continued to speak against the government relentlessly.”
Chaudhary also mentioned the incident of the April 22 event where Amrinder Singh Brar alias Raja Warring took charge as the state Congress president. He succeeded Navjot Singh Sidhu.
Notably, Sidhu came to the party office during the event but did not share the stage with other party leaders. He later met Warring and congratulated him for taking over as the new Punjab Congress chief.
Calling Sidhu’s action at Warring’s assumption of office ceremony “inexcusable, he said “Shri Sidhu simply met and wished the incumbent PCC president and hurriedly left the venue, whereas, the entire state leadership attended the function and presented a united face to the Congress party workers.
He further said that Sidhu cannot be allowed to portray himself above the party and “set an example for others to breach the party discipline” and recommended to seek an explanation from him as to why a disciplinary proceeding should not be initiated against him.
Earlier, Sidhu had said the Congress party lost the Punjab Assembly elections because of the ‘mafia raj’ that prevailed in the state and it now needed to reinvent itself.
Talking to reporters at the sidelines of an event where Warring took charge as the state Congress president, Sidhu also praised Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann as a younger brother and an ‘honest man’.
