Congress leader and political advisor to party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi, Vibhakar Shastri, on Tuesday said that “outsiders” should...
Congress leader and political advisor to party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi, Vibhakar Shastri, on Tuesday said that “outsiders” should not be given important positions in the party so soon, PTI reported. Shastri’s comments came after Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned as the party’s Punjab chief.
Sidhu had defected to Congress in 2017, after being in the Bharatiya Janata Party from 2004.
“The party should give a cooling off period of at least five years to those leaders who have come from other parties so that they can work for the organisation and know the ideology,” Shastri said. “No person should be more than a particular party and ideology.”
A few other Congress leaders have also called out Sidhu for quitting as the Punjab Congress chief within two months of his appointment.
Senior Punjab Congress leader Sunil Jakhar said that Sidhu’s resignation from the post has breached the party’s trust. Jakhar was removed as the Punjab Congress chief in July to make way for Sidhu.
“What stands compromised in this entire ‘episode’ is the faith reposed in the [outgoing ?] PCC President by the Congress Leadership,” he said in a tweet. “No amount of grand standing can justify this breach of trust placing his benefactors in a peculiar predicament.”
Congress leader from Delhi, Alka Lamba, also took a...
