{"id":333032,"date":"2021-07-15T06:03:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T11:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=333032"},"modified":"2021-07-15T06:03:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T11:33:40","slug":"navjot-singh-sidhu-may-be-next-punjab-congress-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/navjot-singh-sidhu-may-be-next-punjab-congress-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Navjot Singh Sidhu may be next Punjab Congress chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Navjot Singh Sidhu is likely to be appointed as chief of the Punjab Congress soon whilst Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh will lead the party for 2022 Assembly election, sources said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

After a long running feud between CM Amrinder Singh and Navjot Singh \u00a0Sidhu congress party resolve the issue that have endangered the party’s campaign for the state Assembly election due next year.<\/p>\n

News of a settlement between Amarinder Singh and Navjot Sidhu comes a week after the Chief Minister met \u00a0Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in Delhi.<\/p>\n

As part of the compromise Amarinder Singh will also fix his Council of Ministers, with Charanjit Channi and Gurpreet Kangar among those likely to be sacked.<\/p>\n

Assembly Speaker Rana KP Singh and MLA and Dalit leader Raj Kumar Verka are among the three or four new faces expected.<\/p>\n

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Navjot Singh Sidhu is likely to be appointed as chief of the Punjab Congress soon whilst Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh will lead the party for 2022 Assembly election, sources said on Thursday. After a long running feud between CM Amrinder Singh and Navjot Singh \u00a0Sidhu congress party resolve the issue that have endangered the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":333034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2913,2014],"tags":[2607,14199,14048],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333035,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333032\/revisions\/333035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/333034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}