Sidhu Withdraws Resignation As Punjab Cong Chief Over A Month After Quitting

Mumbai: Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday withdrew his resignation from the post of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President, over a month after quitting.

“I have taken back my resignation (as Punjab Congress chief) and I categorically state that the day new Advocate General will be appointed and a new panel will come, I will take charge of my office. It was not any personal ego,” Sidhu said while addressing a press conference here.

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On September 28, Sidhu resigned as the president of the Punjab unit of Congress. He was reportedly upset with the bureaucratic system and non-compliance of his orders after the cabinet expansion in Punjab.

He was appointed Punjab Congress President on 23 July this year after months of turmoil in the state Congress unit.

After a tussle in the Punjab Congress between Sidhu and Captain Amarinder Singh in August, the party-appointed Sidhu as Congress chief against the wishes of the then chief minister.

Amarinder Singh had resigned as chief minister in September and recently resigned from the primary membership of the Congress, which has also been accepted by the party’s interim president Sonia Gandhi. The former Chief Minister has started a new party ‘Punjab Lok Congress’.

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