Channi takes charge as CLP leader
Friday, 18/12/2015
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Chandigarh: Chamkaur Sahib MLA Charanjit Singh Channi assumed the charge of Congress Legislative Party (CLP) leader at the CLP office here on Thursday. Accompanying him were a battery of other party legislators including Bharat Bhushan Ashu and Navtej Singh Cheema, who also took charge of Deputy CLP leader and the party’s chief whip respectively in the Vidhan Sabha. The trio was recently elevated to the posts after 40 Congress MLAs had on December 7 authorised the party president Sonia Gandhi to name the Congress Legislative Party (CLP) leader.
After assuming the charge, Channi, who had won the first election as an independent before joining the Congress, said that he and his team would leave no stone unturned to expose the alleged misdeeds of SAD-BJP government inside and outside the Punjab Assembly. Channi said that he along with PPCC chief Captain Amarinder Singh will draw strategy to raise the issues of public concern and will take the ruling alliance head-on on the floor of the House. He said that he would also co-ordinate with former CLP leader Sunil Jakhar, who always raised the people’s issues inside and outside the Assembly. It is learnt that Jakhar may get some better responsibility in the party
