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  • Navjot Singh Sidhu’s advisor Mustafa targets Amarinder Singh for calling PPCC chief ‘anti-national’

    By PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu’s strategic advisor Mohd Mustafa Sunday attacked former chief minister Amarinder Singh for calling Sidhu “anti-national”.

    Mustafa, a former IPS officer, also accused Amarinder Singh of targeting the Gandhi family, and said he is in possession of “irrefutable proofs” of wrongdoings by the former chief minister.

    Mustafa’s reaction came a day after Amarinder Singh resigned as chief minister and launched a no-holds-barred attack against Sidhu, calling him “anti-national”, “dangerous” and a “total disaster”.

    The Congress veteran had also said he won’t accept Sidhu as the next chief minister or the party face in the upcoming Assembly polls.

    Talking to the media, Mustafa said he respected Amarinder Singh a lot and he had been his family friend.

    “But if he calls Sidhu anti-national, I will reply.”

    He claimed that he was in possession “proofs” of “a mountain of wrongdoings” against Amarinder Singh.

    “Capt Sir, we have been family friends for long. Don’t force me to open my mouth. I know u hve infinite capacity to tell barefaced lies with a straight face,” he said in a tweet.

    “What u know that I know, is not even tip of the iceberg. I hve in my possession a mountain of yr wrongdoings with irefutable proofs,” he said in another tweet.

    Speaking to reporters, Mustafa said Amarinder Singh should not call Sidhu “anti-national”.

    “He should not target Gandhi family through Sidhu sahib – His target is Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi,” alleged Mustafa.

  • Amarinder Singh meets Harish Rawat, says any decision by Congress president acceptable to all

    By PTI
    CHANDIGARH: Any decision taken by the Congress president will be acceptable to all, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said on Saturday after meeting AICC general secretary and Punjab in-charge Harish Rawat.

    Rawat flew down to Chandigarh as tensions escalate in the Congress’ Punjab unit over differences between Amarinder and Navjot Singh Sidhu.

    There is intense speculation that the cricketer-turned-politician may be appointed state Congress chief.

    Rawat reached Chandigarh in a chopper around 12 noon and went straight to the chief minister’s farm house in Mohali.

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    The visit is being seen as an effort to placate Amarinder, who wrote a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday.

    He is learnt to have said that giving the post of state party chief to Sidhu, a Jat Sikh, would upset the party’s senior leaders representing the Hindu community and harm the party’s prospects in the 2022 assembly elections.

  • Amidst speculations, Navjot Singh Sidhu meets Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar

    By PTI
    CHANDIGARH: Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu met Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee chief Sunil Jakhar on Saturday, amid mounting speculation over whether the party will appoint the cricketer-turned-politician as the next head of its state unit.

    After the meeting, which lasted more than half-an-hour, Sidhu said Jakhar is his elder brother and a guiding force.

    Jakhar, in turn, described Sidhu as a capable man.

    Sidhu left his residence in Patiala and reached Jakhar’s residence in Panchkula about 65 km away at around 10:45 am, an aide said.

    The meeting comes in the backdrop of simmering tensions in the Punjab Congress following differences between Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Sidhu.

    On Friday, Sidhu met party chief Sonia Gandhi at her residence in New Delhi in an apparent bid to arrive at a truce formula over the state unit revamp.

    Also present at the meeting were AICC general secretary in-charge of Punjab Harish Rawat and Rahul Gandhi.

    Sources said reports of Sidhu’s elevation had irked Amarinder Singh and he had written to Sonia Gandhi expressing strong resentment over the developments.