Chennai: A coordination committee tasked with monitoring the progress of the Congress’s promises made before the 2017 Punjab polls — this was the big decision of evening’s meeting between Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has agreed to stay on as the party’s State unit chief. There is a buzz that the three-member committee might comprise Harish Chaudhary, the Chief Minister and Sidhu.
Sidhu met Channi on Thursday evening and this decision was reached after an over two-hour meeting at the Punjab Congress Bhavan. The meeting was also attended by Congress leader and central observer Harish Chaudhary, Minister Pargat Singh and Punjab Congress working president Kuljit Nagra.
After staying put at his residence in Patiala following his resignation, Sidhu came to Chandigarh Thursday to meet Channi in the presence of Chaudhary.
Channi, the state’s first Dalit Chief Minister whose selection is being hailed by many as a gamechanger for the Congress ahead of next year’s state polls, had earlier indicated that he was willing to consider suggestions.