Team News Riveting
Chandigarh, January 12
Even as Punjab prepares to go for elections due next month, Congress is battling to even its house in order as it faces tough challenge to retain power in the border state.
In a fresh volley, Congress Member of Parliament (MP) from Punjab’s Anandpur Sahib has once again targeted Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and state party president Navjot Singh Sidhu. It is reported that the Congress is considering to name either of them as the chief ministerial candidate.
Tewari on Wednesday said, “Punjab needs serious people,” and charged that Channi and Sidhu were non-serious persons who were only entertaining people.
Tewari tweeted, “Punjab requires a CM who has solutions to Punjab’s challenges, capacity to take tough decisions. Punjab needs serious people whose politics is Not Social Engineering, Entertainment, Freebies and NOT regime favourites rejected by people in successive elections.”
The Congress, so far, has not named anyone as the chief ministerial face for the upcoming Assembly elections as the party considers that it will intensify infighting and internal rift.
Giving new dimension to the dispute, state unit chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday said it is the people who would choose the next chief minister of the state and not the high command.
Meanwhile, AAP Chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said his party would name Chief Minister candidate for Punjab next week.
