This will be the second lunch meeting between the leaders. The first such meeting was held in November last year, which was seen as the first step to break the ice between the two sides.
Official sources said that Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh is expected to meet former minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday lunch, stating that the cricketer may be given an important role before the 2022 state elections to the politician.
This will be the second lunch meeting between the leaders. The first such meeting was held in November last year, which was seen as the first step to break the ice between the two sides.
Singh then said that he and Sidhu would continue to have cordial meetings.
Another meeting between the two leaders assumes significance as the central leadership of the Congress is attempting to rehabilitate Sidhu who resigned from the post of minister after the division of the local body portfolio in 2019.
Congress leader and in-charge of Punjab affairs Harish Rawat is emphasizing an important position for Sidhu.
Rawat met Sidhu on 10 March. After the meeting, Sidhu had said, “Harish Rawat ji had called. A cordial meeting took place. “For the past several weeks, party circles have been dismissed with speculation that Sidhu may be re-inducted into the state cabinet with some key portfolios.” Unit President.
Notably, the two leaders were not on the best of terms. Tensions between Singh and Sidhu came out in the open in May 2019, when the CM blamed the former cricketer for “inept handling” of the local government department, claiming that the Congress had a “poor performance” in urban areas Was. 2019 Lok Sabha Elections
Sidhu was stripped of important portfolios in a cabinet reshuffle following which he resigned from the state cabinet.
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