India

Punjab Cong woes far from over

IANS

The tussle in the Punjab Congress is far from over with Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu still at loggerheads and the latter is not leaving any stone unturned to target the Chief Minister, though interventions from the Gandhis have been futile and both sides are flexing their muscles.

The latest has been the issue of electricity in which Sidhu targeted the CM and with counter offensive after the allegation that Sidhu himself has been a defaulter and has not paid his bills.

Sidhu mocked his own Government in Punjab over power outages and asked the government to follow the AAP’s Delhi model of extending subsidies to generation companies.

“There is no need for power cuts in Punjab or for the Chief Minister to regulate office timings or AC use of the common people...If we act in the right direction,” said a sulking Sidhu, who met Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi separately in New Delhi on June 30 and apprised them of the

political situation in Punjab that will go to the polls early next year.