10 District Congress Committee chiefs retained, were picked by Sunil Jakhar

Rajmeet Singh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 13

The AICC has finally announced new District Congress Committee (DCC) presidents who have been attached with two or three working presidents, as demanded by the PPCC chief Navjot Sidhu.

Significantly, the high command has retained 10 DCC presidents appointed by former PPCC chief Sunil Jakhar in February 2019. Sources said it was after hectic parleys that Sidhu agreed to retain the Fatehgarh Sahib, Patiala-Rural, Amritsar-Rural, Pathankot, Ludhiana-Urban, Ludhiana-Rural, Fazilka, Muktsar, Bathinda-Urban and Hoshiarpur DCC presidents.

Ahead of announcing the DCC presidents, Punjab Affairs in-charge Harish Chaudhary is learnt to have met Jakhar and other senior leaders. “It’s a please-all exercise as the party did not want Capt Amarinder Singh to poach on disgruntled leaders,” observed a senior leader.

In Ropar, CM Charanjit Singh Channi and Speaker Rana KP Singh seem to have cut Youth Congress president Barinder Dhillon to size by appointing his opponent Ashwini Kumar as DCC chief. No working president has been appointed in Ropar.