In perhaps what could be the last in a series of meetings in one month between Punjab leaders and the Congress high command, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh met party  president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday to  resolve the crisis in the State unit ahead of the Assembly polls.

The CM’s meeting with Sonia comes a few days after rebel leader Navjot Singh Sidhu met party leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi.

 After meeting Sonia, the CM said whatever decisions she takes on changes in the organisation and the Government will be acceptable to him. The meeting lasted for 90 minutes in the presence of senior party leader Mallikarjun Kharge who heads the three-member AICC panel to resolve the Punjab crisis.

The central leadership of Congress has been trying to end factionalism in Punjab, which will go to assembly polls next year. While AICC panel submitted a report to the party, Rahul too had met several leaders from Punjab including MPs to resolve the crisis ahead of the assembly elections next year.

 “Whatever decision the Congress president takes, we will implement it in Punjab. The decisions taken by Congress chief on anything - the party and the government - will be acceptable,” Singh told media after the meeting at Sonia’s residence.

The CM said he always meets the Congress president whenever he is in Delhi and this was one such meet. “I do not know anything about Sidhu sahib, I only discussed our government’s work. Political issues were also discussed,” he said when asked whether a role for Sidhu was also discussed during the meeting.

The Punjab unit of Congress is a divided house with one section led by former minister Navjot Singh Sidhu challenging the chief minister. Sidhu has been attacking Singh on issues like the alleged delay in the completion of a probe into the 2015 desecration of Sikh texts and the subsequent police firing on protesters.