{"id":337248,"date":"2022-04-27T06:59:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=337248"},"modified":"2022-04-27T06:59:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:29:33","slug":"sunil-jakhar-wishes-congress-good-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sunil-jakhar-wishes-congress-good-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Jakhar wishes Congress ‘good luck’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chandigarh: <\/strong>Yesterday\u00a0\u00a0after the Congress disciplinary panel recommended his two-year suspension on Tuesday, former Punjab unit chief Sunil Jakhar wished his party good luck while refusing to reveal his own plans.<\/p>\n

I wish the Congress good luck, Jakhar said when reporters sought his reaction to the disciplinary committee’s recommendation. He refused to comment when asked what would be his next step.<\/p>\n

The committee, which met Tuesday morning in Delhi, gave its recommendations to party president Sonia Gandhi, who will take the necessary action.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the panel’s meeting, Jakhar had said those who still have a conscience will be punished.<\/p>\n

Aaj, sar kalam honge unke jinme abhi zameer baaki hai. (Today, those with a conscience will be beheaded). (My apologies to Javed Akhtar Saheb), the former MP said in a tweet earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

The party disciplinary committee had on April 11 given a show-cause notice to Jakhar for alleged anti-party activities and sought a reply within a week. But he chose not to reply.<\/p>\n

Jakhar had criticised former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi and termed him a liability for the party after the Congress lost the Punjab Assembly polls to the Aam Aadmi Party.<\/p>\n

Some party leaders, including former minister Raj Kumar Verka, had also demanded action against Jakhar, accusing him of using objectionable language against Channi and the Scheduled Caste community during a TV interview.<\/p>\n

But Jakhar had rejected the charge, saying his remarks were twisted out of context. He had also expressed regret if anybody was hurt by his comments.<\/p>\n

He had earlier created a flutter claiming that 42 MLAs wanted him to be the chief minister and only two backed Channi after the unceremonious exit of Amarinder Singh last year.<\/p>\n

He was among the frontrunners for the CM’s post after Amarinder Singh was unseated by the party.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Jakhar was replaced by Navjot Singh Sidhu as the Punjab Congress president.<\/p>\n

His chances of becoming the CM were scuttled after party veteran Ambika Soni said the Congress should go with a Sikh face in Punjab.<\/p>\n

The disciplinary panel also recommended the suspension of five Meghalaya MLAs who had supported the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA), defying the party directives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chandigarh: Yesterday\u00a0\u00a0after the Congress disciplinary panel recommended his two-year suspension on Tuesday, former Punjab unit chief Sunil Jakhar wished his party good luck while refusing to reveal his own plans. I wish the Congress good luck, Jakhar said when reporters sought his reaction to the disciplinary committee’s recommendation. He refused to comment when asked what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":337249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337248"}],"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=337248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337250,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337248\/revisions\/337250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/337249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}