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Though the agenda of the CLP was not known, it came a day after at least 40 MLAs wrote to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, demanding a meeting of the CLP to chalk out a strategy for the Punjab elections.
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Punjab Congress in-charge Harish Rawat created a stir in the political circles late on Friday night and announced that a meeting of the Congress Legislature Party will be held at the PPCC headquarters in Chandigarh on Saturday.
Interestingly, Rawat took to micro-blogging site Twitter to make the announcement. “AICC has received a representation from a large number of MLAs of the party, requesting to convene a meeting of Congress Legislature Party of Punjab immediately. Under this, a meeting of CLP has been called on September 18 at 5 pm in the office of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee.
Rawat said that the AICC has directed the PPCC to facilitate the meeting. “All Congress MLAs of Punjab are requested to kindly attend this meeting,” Rawat said.
Minutes later, the Punjab Congress chief also took to Twitter to share details of the meeting. Congress Legislature Party meeting has been called at PPCC office as per the instructions of AICC.
Though the agenda of the CLP was not known, at least 40 MLAs wrote to Congress President Sonia Gandhi demanding a meeting of the CLP to chalk out a strategy for the upcoming assembly elections to be held in early 2022. Sources said that the MLAs also informed the President through a letter that they would discuss the 18-point agenda of the party high command given to Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh.
Captain Camp was yet to react to the developments late in the night. Sources said that apart from Harish Rawat, two party observers from Delhi Harish Chaudhary and Ajay Maken are expected to attend the meeting. Chaudhary is a confidante of Rahul Gandhi and a minister in the Rajasthan cabinet.
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