Bajwa to host lunch for Capt at Qadian today

Ravi Dhaliwal

Tribune News Service

Gurdaspur, August 25

Rajya Sabha MP Partap Singh Bajwa will be hosting a lunch at his Qadian residence tomorrow for PPCC president Capt Amarinder Singh.

Amarinder is scheduled to address a rally in Gurdaspur after which he will visit Dinanagar to meet district Congress president Ashok Chowdhury who lost his mother recently. He will then be driving to Qadian, 40 km away, to have lunch with the Bajwa family.

Of late, relations seem to have improved between the two. They have even been travelling together to different places giving credence to theories that their differences are now a thing of the past.

Punjab Congress incharge Asha Kumari has reportedly played an important role in ensuring that both leaders put up a united face ahead of the Assembly elections.

She said: “Amarinder has been organising lunch and dinner meetings regularly. There is no harm if he attends a reciprocal lunch at Bajwa’s home. There are so many things that can be discussed by both of them when they share a meal. Such gatherings should be held more frequently particularly in the run up to the elections,” she said.

The others invited are AICC general secretary and chairperson of the campaign committee Ambika Soni and all five sitting Congress legislators of this district — Tripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa (Fatehgarh Churian), Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa (Dera Baba Nanak), Ashwani Sekhri (Batala), Charanjit Kaur Bajwa (Qadian) and Aruna Chowdhury (Dinanagar). Three of them are known political foes of Bajwa, but sources said since Soni and Asha Kumari would be in attendance, the legislators would be left with no option but to mark their presence.

A sitting legislator claimed that the discussion regarding the number of ticket to be given to Bajwa’s supporters might also be held during the PPCC chief’s visit.