Five reasons- Two days after the reshuffled Punjab Congressional Cabinet was sworn in, PPCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu dropped his resignation bomb on Tuesday, tweeting the letter to Sonia Gandhi about her resignation as Congressional chief of the state.( Five reasons ) But what prompted him to take this step a few days after the resignation of his pet peeve, Capt Amarinder Singh, as chief minister? Here are Five reasons:
Composition of the Cabinet
Just hours before the inauguration of the new Cabinet, six ministers from the Doaba region sent a letter to Sidhu against the elevation of Rana Gurjit Singh, noting that he had resigned from the ministry in 2018 over allegations of corruption. in the sand. mining case.
It is learned that Sidhu was also against the inclusion of Rana Gurjit, the deputy for Kapurthala, but the high command of the Congress continued its process, choosing instead to remove Kuljit Singh Nagra, current president of the PPCC, considered to be close to Sidhu.
To add insult to injury, the ministry also included Sidhu’s vocal critic Dr Raj Kumar Verka. He was accommodated as a Valmiki face in the ministry.
Wallet problem
We learn that Sidhu did not agree with the decision to entrust the very important portfolio of the Interior to Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa. Sidhu would have been in favor of keeping the department by the CM, but it was handed over to Randhawa. Earlier, Sidhu had rejected the decision to elevate Randhawa as a CM, saying that if the party chooses a Jat Sikh face, it should be him.
The new AG
On Monday evening, the Congressional government appointed senior counsel APS Deol as general counsel. This led to the government being criticized by the opposition, as Deol was until recently the lawyer for former DGP Sumedh Singh Saini, the police chief during the incidents of sacrilege and police shooting at the demonstrators.
Deol had succeeded in securing global bail in four cases filed by the Punjabi police. Sidhu’s supporters say he was annoyed by the move because it appeared to contradict the government’s resolve to punish those behind police who shot at protesters in Behbal Kalan, in which two people were killed.
The new administrator
Sidhu, who was appointed head of the PPCC on July 19, has failed to secure any officer of his choice in key positions, including that of the Punjab’s police chief. We learn that his advisor, former IPS officer Mohd Mustafa – whose wife Razia Sultana also left Channi’s ministry a few hours after Sidhu’s resignation – wanted to appoint S Chattopadhyaya to this post, but CM Channi has succeeded in appointing IS Sahota, an officer of his choice.
A reborn Channi
It’s no secret that Sidhu loves the top job. However, the statement by state congressman Harish Rawat that the party would fight the 2022 elections under Sidhu’s leadership met with opposition from the Punjabi Congress, forcing him to moderate. his remark.
Additionally, as CM Channi rushed forward, political observers began to comment that he was not a “night watchman” keeping the seat warm for Sidhu. This perhaps added to the unease of Sidhu, who was feeling more and more helpless.
