TEAM SIDHU CALLS ON CAPT, WANTS IMMEDIATE ACTION ON 5 DEMANDS
Punjab Congress president says these issues are drawn from amongst party’s 18-point agenda
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu and four working presidents, who met chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday, demanded immediate action in sacrilege and police firing cases, arrest of “big fish” behind drug trafficking and rejection of three farm laws. These were among the five “priority areas”, which also included cancellation of “faulty” power purchase agreements and opening of doors for discussions with 20 protesting unions, listed by Sidhu and his team.
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu and four working presidents, who met chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday, demanded immediate action in sacrilege and police firing cases, arrest of “big fish” behind drug trafficking and rejection of three farm laws.
These were among the five “priority areas”, which also included cancellation of “faulty” power purchase agreements and opening of doors for discussions with 20 protesting unions, listed by Sidhu and his team for immediate action in a letter handed over by the newly appointed state officebearers of Punjab Congress to Amarinder at their first formal meeting.
The government must act immediately upon these issues identified from amongst the 18-point agenda after multiple deliberations and consultations with party workers across Punjab to understand the public sentiment, read the one-page letter signed by Sidhu and working presidents Sangat Singh Gilzian, Sukhwinder Singh Danny, Kuljit Nagra and Pawan Goel.
The meeting, held at the chief minister’s office in Punjab Civil Secretariat, lasted close to one-and-a-half hours.
Amarinder told Sidhu and others that all the key issues of concern raised by them are already in advanced stages of resolution, and that his government had been working on them in close coordination with the party. “The government
The key issues of concern raised by them (Sidhu and his team) are already in advanced stages of resolution
CAPT AMARINDER SINGH, Punjab chief minister
has already implemented most of the promises made to the people in the party’s 2017 election manifesto. The other pending issues are also being resolved. The government is committed to the implementation of all the poll promises,” he told the newly constituted state Congress leadership.
The chief minister also stressed the need to work closely together in the interest of the party and the state and its people. “The party leaders and workers need to take the pro-people decisions and actions of the government to the ground so that the people of Punjab could be made aware of all the excellent work done in the past four-plus years of the Congress government in the state,” Amarinder said, offering to meet the PPCC leaders on regular basis for better coordination.