PCC meeting warns rebels
Tuesday, 04/09/2012
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120904/punjab.htm#2
Chandigarh : Most district presidents, MLAs and defeated candidates attended a PCC meeting here today. Apparently held for finalising the party’s September 7 protest programmes, it was actually meant to gauge the level of support that Pradesh Congress chief Amarinder Singh has among his party workers. Party insiders said the meeting was actually a show of strength by the Amarinder camp.
More than 20 of the total 28 district presidents are learnt to have attended the meeting. Among the 46 party MLAs, 29 were present and so were 42 of the 68 defeated candidates. Besides other things, the meeting passed a unanimous resolution, asking the rebels to desist from “anti-party” activities and seeking action against those publicly flouting the authority of the PCC president.
The Amarinder camp appears to have adopted a two- pronged strategy. On the one hand, it has enlisted the support of a majority of party MLAs, district presidents and defeated candidates and on the other has started reaching out to the people by holding rallies.
The Amarinder camp appears to be buoyed over, what it claims, the success of the party programmes at Patti in Tarn Taran on Sunday and at Morinda.
