Amid infighting in its Punjab unit with former ministerNavjot Singh Sidhu training guns at Chief Amarinder Singh over 2015sacrilege issue and calling for party leaders to go to Delhi and raise it withthe top leadership, the Congress on Friday said it was seized of the matter andwill soon act.
Congress General Secretary, Organisation, K.C. Venugopalsaid: "We are watching it and will take a call on it" while termingit an "organizational issue".
Sources say that the party is likely to constitute acommittee to look into the issue in Punjab, where Assembly elections are duenext year.
Cricketer-turned-politician Sidhu, who had been lying lowsince his resignation from the state Cabinet in July 2019, has launchedscathing attacks all this month against the Chief Minister over hisgovernment's action over the alleged desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib in2015 when the Akali Dal-BJP government was in power and accused him of"shielding the Badals".
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Charging the Chief Minister with taking action againsthis own party leaders instead, Sidhu, in a tweet on Thursday, said: "In2019, I began & ended my Election Campaign in Punjab seeking - Justice forSacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib Ji & punishing the culprits & the ONEshielding them... Now, Our MLAs & Party Workers must go to Delhi &speak the Truth of Punjab to our High Command, as I regularly do."
Earlier, he had tweeted: "Ministers, MLAs & MPsraising People's Issues are strengthening the Party, fulfilling theirDemocratic Duty & exercising their Constitutional Right... But everyone whospeaks the truth becomes your enemy. Thus, you threaten your party colleagues,exhibiting your fear & insecurity".
As his attacks on Amarinder Singh saw pushback from otherministers, who demanded his suspension from the party for indiscipline, Sidhuhad urged him to stop firing from his "colleagues' shoulders", andasked, "... Who will protect you in court of the Great Guru?"
Taking a tough stance last month, Amarinder Singh hadsaid that if Sidhu "wants to contest against him, then he is free to do sobut that would only lead to Sidhu meeting the fate of (former Army chief andAkali Dal candidate) General J.J. Singh who had lost his securitydeposit".
He had also challenged Sidhu to clearly spell out whetherhe is a Congress member or not.
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