Amid escalated infighting in the Punjab Congress, Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday met Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in New Delhi.
Reports suggest that Sidhu is believed to have discussed his role in the revamp in the Punjab Congress. Sources close to Sidhu said that he had met Priyanka Gandhi for three hours.
Sidhu tweeted his picture with Priyanka with a caption had a long meeting with Priyanka Gandhi.
Sidhu’s meeting with Priyanka Gandhi came a day after Rahul Gandhi denied meeting with the Punjab leader. There is no meeting, Rahul Gandhi told the reporters while leaving his Tughlaq Lane residence on Tuesday.
Sidhu’s team had on Monday told the media that they would be meeting Rahul and Priyanka on Tuesday. He had left his Patiala residence on Tuesday morning but no meeting took place the entire day. Rahul told the media that there was no meeting with Sidhu.
Sidhu’s meeting with Gandhis is considered significant in Congress circles as the party high command is working on sorting a crisis in the state unit of the party. The meeting is being believed to have a bearing on his fate in the Congress.
Notably, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi have been making efforts to bring all Congress leaders, including Sidhu, on a common platform and present a united Congress ahead of the next year’s Punjab Assembly Elections.
Rahul has met ministers, MPs, and MLAs – such as Balbir Singh Sidhu, Brahm Mohindra, Vijay Inder Singla, Shamsher Singh Dullo, Lakhvir Singh Lakha – over the past few days amid the ongoing infighting in Punjab Congress.
He has also met Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar and Rajya Sabha MP and former Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa.
Navjot Singh Sidhu had resigned from the Punjab cabinet after he was divested of the local bodies portfolio in 2019.
He has attacked the Punjab CM over the alleged delay in justice in the 2015 incidents of sacrilege and subsequent police firing. To this, Amarinder Singh had hit out at Sidhu and described the latter’s outbursts as “total indiscipline.
Earlier this month, Navjot Singh Sidhu had appeared before a three-member panel set up by Congress to resolve the infighting within the party’s state unit while Amarinder Singh had appeared before the panel in Delhi on June 22.