Capt meets Sonia over election list
Saturday, 24/12/2011
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20111224/punjab.htm#3
Punjab Congress leaders, including PCC president Capt Amarinder Singh and CLP Leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, today met the party president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi. The party incharge for Punjab, Gulchain Singh Charak, was also present at the meeting.
The trio apparently met Gandhi to formally handover a copy of the resolution authorising her to nominate the candidates for the coming assembly elections. Only last evening, the party’s state election committee, which met under the chairmanship of the PCC president in New Delhi, passed a one-line resolution authorising Gandhi to nominate the candidates.
Party sources pointed out that this was a standard practice and protocol to authorise the party president to nominate the candidates for the assembly or any other elections while the actual ground work was done at the state level.
Apart from finalising the list of candidates, the issue of leaders from other parties joining the Congress is also learnt to have figured in the discussions.
There is already some hue and cry being raised in different quarters about the entry of such leaders who were potential claimants for party ticket. After the party inducted Jagbir Brar and Kushaldeep Singh Dhillon, two founder members of the People’s Party of Punjab who were originally from the Shiromani Akali Dal, there has been resistance from the party cadres in Jallandhar Cantonment and Faridkot as the local leaders apprehend the duo might be accommodated at their cost.
While the opposition in Jallandhar was muted, in Faridkot sitting Congress MLA Avtar Brar raised the banner of revolt reportedly at the behest of Bhattal. Amarinder has been maintaining that the leaders were inducted after approval from the high command. About ticket, Amarinder has been saying that it was the prerogative of the party president.
