Punjab CM reaches Delhi, likely to meet Sonia Gandhi

Amid the ongoing feud within Punjab Congress, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has reached Delhi. He is expected to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi at her residence, 10 Janpath, here in the national capital.

New Delhi: Amid the ongoing feud within the Punjab Congress, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has reached Delhi. He is expected to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi at her residence, 10 Janpath, in the national capital. The crucial meeting may give the final shape to the truce formula to end the dissension within the Punjab Congress. Congress may soon make announcements to end the ongoing crisis within its Punjab unit.

Ahead of his meeting with the Congress President, few state leaders including MP Ravneet Bittu, MLA Rajkumar Verka, and ex-MLA Ashwani Sekhri reached Kapurthala House, in Delhi, to have a discussion with Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh.

While speaking to the media, MP Ravneet Bittu said, "We have become an MP or an MLA because of the leadership of Capt Amarinder Singh. We are with him. The rest of the decisions will be taken by the party high command."

Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has been at loggerheads with the Chief Minister, recently held a meeting with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi in Delhi to press upon his demands regarding the changes in state leadership. Even today, Sidhu has launched a scathing attack on Amarinder Singh in a series of tweets, pressing for the annulment of these PPAs through new legislation in the Assembly, stating that the free power promise is a mere fantasy till this is done.

"Hollow promises of free power have no meaning until PPAs are annulled through new legislation in Punjab Vidhan Sabha. 300 units of free power is merely a fantasy until the faulty clauses in PPAs are keeping Punjab bonded," he tweeted.

Reacting to his allegations, Congress MLA Raj Kumar Verka said to the media, "Today is the final meeting after which each and every person would have to be within his or her limits." Meanwhile, Congress leader Ashwani Sekhari stated that the three-member panel of the Congress party had given a chance to Captain Amarinder Singh to fulfil the Government's promises mentioned in its manifesto. If that would have happened then Sidhu may not have said all these things.