Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa’s loyal soldiers may not have to wait for long to find an official position in his battalion. After a resounding defeat of the Congress in the Assembly polls held in four States, the party has decided not to further delay the announcement of the “already delayed” list of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee office-bearers, ahead the 2014 lok Sabha elections.
If assertions of general secretary in-charge of the Punjab Congress Shakeel Ahmad are to be believed, the PPCC president is going to announce the list sometime in the next week. On the other hand, sources within the party have maintained that the list may still be delayed due to the Congress’ collapse in four States of Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattigarh, and may take some more time for deliberations and discussions.
Almost a year has passed since the Gurdaspur MP Bajwa took over as PPCC president in March this year, but he is still functioning without his own officially-constituted team. He has continued with the functioning with the team of his predecessor Capt Amarinder Singh. Time and again, PPCC chief, secretary and the general secretary in-charges have been maintaining to announce the list of PPCC office-bearers, but the same was being delayed on one pretext or another.