SIDHU APPOINTS PARGAT AS PPCC GENERAL SECY
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday appointed Jalandhar Cantonment MLA Pargat Singh as PPCC general secretary, organisation. “With the approval of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, AICC general secretary, organisation, KC Venugopal and Punjab Congress in-charge Harish Rawat, I appoint Pargat Singh as the PPCC general secretary, organisation, with immediate effect,” Sidhu tweeted.
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday appointed Jalandhar Cantonment MLA Pargat Singh as PPCC general secretary, organisation.
“With the approval of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary, organisation, KC Venugopal and Punjab Congress in-charge Harish Rawat, I appoint Pargat Singh as the PPCC (Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee) general secretary, organisation, with immediate effect,” Sidhu tweeted.
Considered close to Sidhu, Pargat Singh, a two-time MLA, has been critical of chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh for two years, raising questioning the state government’s failure to fulfil key poll promises in the 2017 assembly elections.
His appointment came on a day Jagbir Brar, a senior party leader and former MLA from Jalandhar Cantonment that Pargat represents in the state assembly now, left the Congress to rejoin the Akali Dal.
A former India hockey captain, Pargat had won the 2012 assembly polls from Jalandhar Cantonment on Akali Dal ticket. He joined the Congress with Sidhu’s wife Navjot Kaur, then a BJP MLA, ahead of 2017 elections. Sidhu had joined the party a few days later. Last week, Sidhu, who took charge as the state Congress chief on July 23, appointed MP Amar Singh, retired IPS officer Mohammad Mustafa, Pyare Lal Garg and Malwinder Singh Mali as his advisers to seek their “wise counsel” on party affairs. While Mustafa declined the role, Mali got into a controversy for his comments against Amarinder.