File photo by Navjot Singh Sidhu (Image credit: PTI)
Navjot Singh Sidhu could soon be given great responsibility by the national leadership of the Congress Party. The cricketer-turned-politician met with National Secretary General of Congress Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Sources say Navjot Singh Sidhu, 57, who had conflicted with Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh, agreed to the formula suggested by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
The high command of Congress has now decided to deliberate on the matter and will make an important announcement on the matter in 48 hours.
Had a long meeting with @priyankagandhi Of the pic.twitter.com/Wd4FYXFrhr
– Navjot Singh Sidhu (hersherryontopp) June 30, 2021
A meeting between Navjot Singh Sidhu and former Congress President Rahul Gandhi could take place in New Delhi this week.
Earlier this week, Navjot Singh Sidhu’s office announced that he had been called to New Delhi to meet Rahul Gandhi.
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However, Rahul Gandhi told reporters outside his Tughlaq Lane residence that no such meeting was planned between him and former Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu.
Sidhu was involved in a bitter tug-of-war with Punjab CM Amarinder Singh. The Prime Minister has made it clear that the appointment of Sidhu as Deputy Prime Minister or Head of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) would not be acceptable to him.
The appointment as deputy CM was one of the demands Sidhu made of the national leadership of the Congress Party.
A hoarding in support of Navjot Singh Sidhu was spotted in Amritsar on June 17, 2021 (Photo: PTI)
Both Navjot Singh and Sidhu Amarinder Singh had shaken hands ahead of the 2017 Punjab Assembly elections. Sidhu even became Minister of Local Government, Tourism and Cultural Affairs.
However, the differences between the two became public in 2019 when Sidhu tweeted a copy of his resignation from the Punjab cabinet. The two prominent Punjab Congress leaders have since exchanged allegations with a solution to this dispute, which is nowhere in sight.
Earlier this month, Sidhu met a three-person member Committee formed by the President of the Congress Sonia Gandhi for feedback from the party’s leaders in Punjab.
Sidhu reportedly sat with the committee for three hours. This committee consisted of the opposition leader in Rajya Sabha – Mallikarjun Kharge, the former Delhi MP Agarwal, and the AICC general secretary responsible for Punjab – the former Prime Minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat.
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