Bajwa’s photo missing from party hoardings Archit Watts
Tribune News Service
Tribune News Service
Muktsar, January 6
Facing a near-revolt, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Partap Singh Bajwa’s photographs have disappeared from hoardings installed by party workers in Muktsar to greet people on the occasion of Maghi Mela.
Facing a near-revolt, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Partap Singh Bajwa’s photographs have disappeared from hoardings installed by party workers in Muktsar to greet people on the occasion of Maghi Mela.
A hoarding with picture of former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh at Lambi village in Muktsar district. A Tribune photograph
At the same time, his predecessor, Capt Amarinder Singh’s pictures have been displayed prominently on these hoardings.This has had local Congress leaders worried who fear that “ fissures” at this juncture may have an impact on the party’s Maghi Mela conference on January 14.
The ruling SAD has made arrangements for an impressive rally. A senior Akali leader said sarpanches in the Malwa belt had been told to bring a bus of supporters to the rally. Rumours are rife that some Congress leaders, including sitting MLAs, may join the SAD at the Maghi Mela.
A rather cross Gurdas Girdhar, newly appointed PPCC executive member, a former Muktsar DCC president, said that Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi, “who has always backed the SAD in a clandestine manner,” had been made coordinator of the party conference at the Maghi Mela.
The newly appointed DCC president, Gurmeet Singh Khudian, when asked why Bajwa’s photographs were missing from party’s hoardings in the district, refuse to comment , saying he had just returned from Chandigarh after attending the first meeting of the new PPCC.
Meanwhile, former Malout MLA Nathu Ram has resigned from the PPCC executive.
He said: “Seniority has been ignored. Hindus and SCs, who comprise the party’s main vote bank, have not been represented properly in the PPCC.”
Courtesy: The Tribune
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