Aditi Tandon amp; Rajmeet Singh
Tribune News Service
New Delhi/Chandigarh, September 18
Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh will resign before the CLP meeting on Saturday evening.
He will resign at 4.30 pm. The resignation is only from the post of the CM and not from the Congress Party.
Earlier, hectic political activity was witnessed in the Punjab Congress here hours before AICC-appointed observers Harish Chaudhary and Ajay Maken and Punjab Affairs incharge Harish Rawat arrived here to hold a meeting of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP).
Though there was no official confirmation, the agenda of the CLP meeting called by the party high command is to choose the new CLP leader in place of Capt Amarinder Singh. The MLAs are likely to approve a single-line agenda authorising party president Sonia Gandhi to elect the new leader.
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Kudos to Sh @RahulGandhi for adopting Alexandrian solution to this punjabi version of Gordian knot. Surprisingly, this bold leadership decision to resolve Punjab Congress imbroglio has not only enthralled congress workers but has sent shudders down the spines of Akalis.
— Sunil Jakhar (@sunilkjakhar) September 18, 2021
The new leader is likely to be elected today itself. The names doing the rounds are those of Sunil Jakhar and Partap Bajwa with Jakhar being the frontrunner.
The anti-CM camp has been busy for the past few days mobilising MLAs against the CM.
Live Updates
*CM Amarinder Singh to resign at 4.30
*The CM, along with ministers Sadhu Singh Dharamsot, Vijay Inder Singla and Brahm Mohindra, is in his Sector 2 residence in Chandigarh. They are deciding upon the future course of action.
*Ajay Maken, Harish Chaudhary and Harish Rawat land at Chandigarh airport; received by Navjot Singh Sidhu, Kuljit Nagra and Pargat Singh.
*Sources close to the CM deny reports that the party high command has asked him to resign.
*PPCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu is at the PCC office ahead of the meeting.
*The CM camp is planning a counter-offensive ahead of the CLP meeting.
*The CM is reaching Sector 2 residence to meet party MLAs ahead of going for the CLP meeting.
Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh to resign before CLP meeting this evening
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