Coordination Committee to be set up
The political storm brewing within the Punjab Congress appears to have abated, at least for the time being, with apparent settling down of disturbances between Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and Navjot Singh Sidhu by coming up with a “formula”. The signs of its slowing down came during the meeting between the two lasting for more than two hours on Thursday. Among other things, it was decided to leave the decision-making process to a coordination committee, composed of Channi, Sidhu, and a member of the party high command.
However, Sidhu is yet to withdraw his resignation.
Adamant on his decision of stepping down from the post of State Congress president, Sidhu on Thursday showed the signs of thaw by accepting the offer for talks with Chief Minister Channi. The softening of Sidhu’s stand came as the party’s top brass has taken a tough stand, apparently to send across a stern message to Sidhu, by not talking to him in the past two days, since he announced his resignation.
There were also reports that the top brass has also started discussing names for his replacement.
