Cong councillors meet Rahul, favour Amarinder
Monday, 19/10/2015
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AMRITSAR: Leaders of the opposition Congress party in the municipal corporations (MCs) of Amritsar, Ludhiana, Patiala and Jalandhar met the party’s national vice-president Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Saturday.
Leaders, including Kawal Preet Singh Lucky from Amritsar, Jagdish Raja from Jalandhar, Hemraj Aggarwal from Ludhiana and Sanjeev Sharma Bittu from the Patiala MC, who met Rahul, said he inquired about the party, including its strengths and weaknesses, in Punjab. “He also sought their views of the leadership crisis in the Punjab unit of the party,” they said.
“All four of us told Rahul that Capt Amarinder Singh is the best person to lead the party in the next assembly polls,” Lucky said.
Lucky said Rahul listened to them about the party problemsin Punjab and assured them that everything would be sorted out in the next few days. “He told us to work hard for strengthening the party in Punjab and getting it ready for the next assembly polls,” he said, adding, “Rahul is pinning high hopes on the Congress coming to power in Punjab after the next assembly polls in 2017.”
The meeting was an unscheduled one. The four Congress leaders had contacted Rahul and had expressed their desire to meet him and he readily obliged them.
The Congress vice-president has so far held meetings with his party MLAs from the border state and with the party’s district presidents. A majority of them are strongly in favour of the Amritsar MP leading the party.
