Fresh, young faces to be included in Cabinet: Jakhar
Sunday, 16/07/2017
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PHAGWARA: Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar on Saturday said young and fresh faces will be inducted in the state cabinet when its expansion takes place.
“Though cabinet expansion is the sole prerogative of Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, I as the party’s state president can say that not only fresh but young faces will be included in it and representation will be given to all sections of the society,” he said.
The state Congress chief told reporters after paying tributes to Pritam Kaur, the elder sister of former Union home minister Buta Singh and mother of former Punjab minister Joginder Singh Mann.
Terming Amarinder a “statesman”, Jakhar claimed that the chief minister had shown the way to others (states) by waiving Rs 2-lakh loans of over 10 lakh farmers in Punjab. Claiming that the farmers crisis is also in BJP-ruled states, he said, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP cannot run away from their responsibility towards tillers by simply saying that it was a state subject.”
