Sonia Gandhi to decide next Punjab CM after elections, says Harish Rawat

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, October 11

Congress general secretary in charge of Punjab Harish Rawat said on Monday that there was no friction between chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi and the state unit president Navjot Singh Sidhu and both would work together to win the 2022 elections.

“The CM and Mr Sidhu will both collaborate on everything. They will be working in tandem to win the next elections. The Congress President will then decide who the next CM will be,” said Rawat, who was in New Delhi today for the joining of Uttrakhand transport minister Yashpal Arya in the Congress.

Asked about Sidhu’s resignation as PCC chief, Rawat quipped: “What resignation? We have not seen any resignation. We have only read about it in the newspapers”.

Sidhu had on September 28 posted his resignation letter as Punjab Congress President on Twitter.

Rawat on Monday clearly indicated the resignation had not been accepted.

On the tensions between the chief minister and Sidhu, who skipped the marriage ceremony of the former’s son in Chandigarh on Monday, Rawat said any issues that are there would be resolved within the party by the CM and Sidhu.

He also downplayed Sidhu’s recent public responses about the CM and said there was no proposal at the moment to form any committee in Punjab for party and government coordination.