Amid Mess, Congress's Harish Rawat Asks To Be Relieved From Punjab Role
NDTV
Punjab is witnessing an infighting between the camps of Chief Minister Amamrinder Singh and state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu. After offering to resign as Congress's Punjab in-charge, Harish Rawat said he would abide by whatever direction is given to him by the party.
Citing next year's assembly elections in Uttarakhand where he is the Congress's campaign committee chairman, Harish Rawat has sought to be relieved as the in-charge of party affairs in Punjab. He said that to concentrate on the upcoming elections in Uttarakhand, it had been on his mind to seek to be relieved of the responsibility as the party's Punjab affairs in-charge. "Yes, this is the reason," the former Uttarakhand Chief Minister told reporters in Dehradun on Thursday when asked if he has sought to be relieved of the charge as Punjab affairs in-charge so that he could concentrate on the upcoming elections in his state. He added that he would abide by whatever direction is given to him by the party.
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