The sacrilege, police firing, mining and some other issues, which played a key role in bringing Captain Amarinder Singh to power in 2017 and then dragging him down after a tenure of four and a half years, are at it again. The center of the new crisis in the party unit.
Charanjit Singh Channi’s appointment appears to have given the party an edge as he played the Scheduled Caste card, but some of his bureaucratic appointments antagonized Sidhu and the party was in trouble once again. Sidhu finds himself on the backfoot regarding acting appointments Punjab DGP, the new Advocate General, and decided to promote Rana Gurjit Singh to the Channi cabinet and cut his losses.
Ironically, the Congress high command managed to oust one of its strongest regional satraps – Captain Amarinder Singh – but its lack of clarity and strategy became apparent later, right from the process of choosing the new CM, his new chief minister. cabinet, and their portfolio. Although Channi’s appointment is now seen as a sort of ‘master stroke’, it was more the result of manipulation than an agenda-setting brainstorm, with other contenders scrutinizing each other.
The party’s central leadership could have swayed 79 of the 80 MLAs and prevented any split in the state unit with Amarinder’s expulsion, but this allowed lobbies within the party to be active and pressure groups to lose their pounds. Allowed to remove meat. Well-known Congress sources tell that Amarinder’s ‘fear factor’ is still in the mind of the high command and some MLAs have used it to their advantage to get into the cabinet and then grab key portfolios.
Three Congress ministers, MLA Pargat Singh and Channi’s ‘Majha Brigade’, had publicly spoken out against Amarinder and demanded his removal as chief minister, but it was Sidhu who became Amarinder’s main rival and joined the party. Attracted all the opponents of the Captain. In return, Amarinder reserved the harshest adjectives for Sidhu alone and did not attack the others.
The Congress high command seems to have used Sidhu to target Amarinder, but as soon as he was ousted, several lobbies within the party managed to be robbed, and Sidhu was left high and dry. Despite clear signs of growing discontent, the Punjab Congress was blinded by the fresh crisis caused by Sidhu’s resignation.
on the back leg
Charanjit Singh Channi’s appointment appears to have given the party an edge as he played the Scheduled Caste card, but some of his bureaucratic appointments antagonized Sidhu and the party was in trouble once again.
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