Sidhu To Continue As Punjab Congress Chief, Issue Will Be Resolved Soon: Sidhu’s Advisor

Mumbai: Navjot Singh Sidhu will continue as President of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee and the issue will be resolved soon, his advisor Mohammad Mustafa told NDTV.

“The issue will be resolved soon. Navjot Sidhu will continue to be Punjab Congress chief,” Mohammad Mustafa, adviser to Navjot Sidhu, told NDTV.

He further told NDTV that the Congress leadership understands Navjot Sidhu. “Sidhu is not Amarinder Singh, who never cared for the Congress and its leadership,” Mustafa told NDTV. Also Read: Captain Amarinder Singh Was Brought Down By Navjot Singh Sidhu: Claims Gurjeet Singh Aujla

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Wednesday met an angry Navjot Singh Sidhu and offered to resolve the issues through talks, a day after Sidhu resigned from the post of state Congress chief.

Meanwhile, efforts are on to pacify Sidhu as several party leaders including ministers Pargat Singh and Amarinder Singh Raja Warring met him at his residence in Patiala. He urged them to work to strengthen the party.

Channi also said the party is supreme and the government follows its ideology. Talking to reporters here on the sidelines of a Cabinet meeting, Channi said, “The (state) president is ahead of the party. The head is to sit in the family (party).” “I have spoken to Sidhu sahab over the telephone today. The party is supreme and the government accepts the party’s ideology and follows that. (I told him that) You come, sit and talk,” he said.

Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned from the post of Punjab Congress Committee President. (PPCC) on Tuesday. However, he said that he would continue to serve the Congress party.

Navjot Singh Sidhu took to Twitter to make the announcement and posted a letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi.

(With NDTV Inputs)

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