Punjab CLP leader Partap Bajwa, PPCC chief Raja Warring meets Rahul Gandhi
New Dehli, April 11 Newly appointed Punjab Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Partap Bajwa, along with Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring met Rahul Gandhi here on Monday.
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Working President Bharat Bhushan Ashu and deputy CLP leader Raj Kumar Chabbewal were also in attendance.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday appointed Amarinder Singh Brar (Raja Warring) as the party’s new Punjab chief in place of Navjot Singh Sidhu, and former Rajya Sabha member Pratap Singh Bajwa as the new legislature party leader.
Warring won the recent assembly elections from the Gidderbaha constituency, Bajwa was elected as an MLA from the Qadian assembly constituency. “The Congress President has appointed Amarinder Singh Brar (Raja Warring) as President and Bharat Bhushan Ashu as Working President of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee,” the party said in a statement.
Warring replaces cricketer-turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, who had to resign after the Congress lost power in Punjab.
Following the party’s drubbing in the five states that went to polls recently, Sonia Gandhi had asked the state Congress chiefs to resign. She also revamped the Manipur and Goa units.
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