Cong high command’s 18-point agenda started bearing fruit: Sidhu
JALANDHAR: With Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh announcing that the Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) will be revisited or cancelled, Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu said the 18-point agenda of the Congress high command was now being implemented in the state.
The Congress high command has prepared this agenda, after hearing grievances of MLAs. Some of the key issues that appear on the document are justice in desecration cases, power tariff, drugs and red tape.
Sidhu, who was in Jalandhar on Thursday, to hold one-on-one meetings with groups of workers from every assembly constituency, said, “Of the high command’s 18 points, I have picked up five issues, keeping my ear to the ground. These are justice in sacrilege and firing cases; tackling the drug menace; revocation of the three farm laws; cancellation of the PPAs and resolving issues of protesting employees to the unemployed.”
“I am happy that there is some movement towards implementation of these five points,” Sidhu, who is an MLA from Amritsar East, said. He termed the three farm laws as unconstitutional and an attack on federalism.
Three Kapurthala MLAs give the meeting a miss
Of four MLAs from Kapurthala, Navtej Cheema from Sultanpur Lodhi; Rana Gurjit Singh from Kapurthala and Sukhpal Khaira from Bholath, gave the meeting a miss. Sources said Cheema was in Delhi, Gurjit was in Chandigarh and claimed he got information on Sidhu’s visit late. Phagwara MLA Balwinder Dhaliwal attended the meeting besides others.