Team News Riveting
Chandigarh, December 29
The Congress today dropped a bouncer to Punjab party Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu and expressed reluctance to name the Chief Ministerial candidate in the state before the elections.
Sidhu had demanded that Congress must declare a Chief Minister candidate today morning. “What’s a baraat without a dulha,” he quipped in an interview with a channel. He added that the right chief minister was crucial to avoid a crisis.
In a big blow to his campaign, a senior party leader confirmed that Congress would not announce a Chief Minister face for the upcoming state assembly elections. Sunil Jakhar, Chairman of the campaign committee of Punjab Congress, said that the party would contest under a “joint leadership”.
The move is aimed at balancing caste equations in the state and preventing infighting within the party. The top faces of the party in Punjab come from diverse communities, aimed at strengthening numbers by tapping into vote banks of all electorally significant groups.
