Chandigarh : The rift within the Congress party has widen more as four cabinet ministers and nearly two dozen MLAs opened revolt against Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and sought his immediate removal from the state.
Rebelled leaders said that they have lack of faith in Captain that he would be able to fulfil the promises made to people including punishment to accused of sacrilege.
The four ministers including Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and Charanjit Singh Channi along with around 30MLAs held a meeting in Chandigarh and demanded CM’s removal. They are on way to Dehradun in Uttarakhand to meet the All India Congress Committee general secretary and Punjab affairs in-charge on Wednesday and are likely to meet senior party leader Rahul Gandhi in this regard on Thursday, a senior party leader said.
“We do not have any faith in the chief minister as he has not fulfilled promises made before the 2017 assembly elections,” three of the ministers said after the meeting.
The unfulfilled promises such as delay in justice in sacrilege and police firing cases, arrest of the big fish in drug rackets and cancellation of power purchase agreements listed by them are part of the 18-point agenda handed by the central leadership to the chief minister two months ago for implementation. Randhawa told reporters that they had no confidence left in him (Amarinder), but changing the chief minister was the prerogative of the party high command.
PPCC chief, who was not part of the meeting, met the rebelled leaders later and later posted a photo with caption that Got a call from Tripat Bajwa ji asking for an emergency…Met him along with other colleagues at the PPCC office. Will appraise the high command of the situation.