Getting into election mode, the Congress on Monday constituted a 53-member Punjab Election Committee (PEC) headed by PPCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, and included all senior party leaders in the jumbo panel.
Sidhu has been appointed as the chairman of the PEC while the Congress has a chief minister in the state. Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi has been appointed as a member of the committee. The committee will shortlist suitable candidates for 117 constituencies and send a panel to the screening committee headed by Ajay Maken. The Screening Committee will further zero in on the candidates and send it to the Congress’s Central Election Committee for its final ticket.
Obviously please – All list includes Chairman of Coordination Committee for Punjab Elections, Ambika Soni, President Campaign Committee, Sunil Jakhar, Chairman of Manifesto Committee, Pratap Singh Bajwa, All Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs from Punjab, All Ministers, Former CMs Rajinder added. Former PPCC chiefs including Kaur Bhattal, HS Hanspal, Mohinder Singh KP.
Other members include AICC secretary Kundan Lal Sharma, Jalalabad MLA Raminder Awla, senior leader Lal Singh, PPCC working president Kuljit Singh Nagra, Sukhwinder Singh Daini, Pawan Goel, former cabinet ministers who were removed after Channi became the CM. Was. These include Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi, Balbir Sidhu, Gurpreet Singh Kangar, Sunder Sham Arora and Sadhu Singh Dharamsot.
Deputy Speaker Ajaib Singh Bhatti and Sultanpur Lodhi MLA Navtej Singh Cheema, who recently had a tussle with cabinet minister Rana Gurjit Singh. Others include Hamid Masih, Scheduled Castes department chairman Rajkumar Chabbewal, Punjab Mahila Congress president Rani Balbir Sodhi, Punjab Youth Congress president Barinder Dhillon, NSUI president Akshay Sharma and Nirmal Kaira of a frontal Congress organization.
With the jumbo list, the Congress has tried to accommodate all senior leaders including Bhattal and Lal Singh. This includes all MPs. Former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s wife Preneet Kaur is also a Congress MP. The party has already issued him a show cause notice for his anti-party activities.
The party has also tried to represent Jat Sikhs, SCs, Hindus, Muslims, women. It has also accommodated senior leaders and young legislators, including Awla and Cheema.
The panel will soon invite applications from ticket desirous candidates before holding further meetings and discussing among themselves about the panel to be shortlisted. Soon the process will start.
Sidhu has his way
Monday was PPCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu’s day when he was appointed election panel chief by the Congress high command and made his way onto district Congress committees as most of the DCC president and working president were Sidhu’s choice.
The high command also approved Sidhu’s formula for having working president along with every DCC chief.
In 28 bodies in districts, the Congress now has one DCC president and one to four working presidents.
Sources said that in places like Fazilka and Pathankot, where Jakhar had earlier appointed DCC presidents of his choice as PPCC chiefs, the high command went with Jakhar’s choice. In both the DCCs, Jakhar has been appointed as Sanjeev Bains from Pathankot and Random Kamra from Fazilka.
In Gurdaspur too, Jakhar had appointed a Christian in Roshan Joseph, but local MLA Barindermeet Pahda has recommended Darshan Mahajan, who has now been appointed DCC president from Gurdaspur. Jakhar was earlier MP from Gurdaspur. Fazilka is his home district.
In Ropar, the high command stamped the choice of Speaker Rana Kanwarpal Singh. Sidhu’s Chief Strategic Adviser Mohammad Mustafa made his way to get his candidates into the DCC. The DCC presidents of Pathankot, Amritsar Rural, Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana Rural, Ludhiana Urban, Patiala Rural, Bathinda Urban, Fazilka, Fatehgarh and Muktsar have been retained. In all other places, new presidents of DCC have been appointed.
On Saturday itself, Sidhu, who was addressing a gathering at Baba Bakala, had said that he was helpless as the PPCC chief as he could not even appoint his own DCC presidents. The list was finally released on Monday. Interestingly, the organization has come into existence four months after Sidhu was made the PPCC chief.
Balraj Thakur is the DCC president from Jalandhar urban, Darshan Singh Tahli from Jalandhar rural, Narendra Lally from Patiala, Gurdeep Singh Unthsar from Patiala rural, Ashwani Pappu from Amritsar urban, Bhagwant Pal Singh Sachar from Amritsar rural, Kirandeep Singh Mitha on Taran Tarn, Ramesh Singh from Kapurthala, Sandeep Singh Bhatia from Nawanshahar, Darshan Sahota from Faridkot, Rishiv Jain from Mohali, Ashwani Sharma from Ludhiana urban, Karanjeet Galib from Ludhiana rural, Rupinder Singh Raja Gill from Khanna, Rajinder Chhabra from Ferozepore, Gurpreet Singh Lucky Pakho from Barnala, Jaspal Das from Malerkotla.
Others include Kamaljeet Brar from Moga, Harcharan Singh Brar Sotha from Muktsar, Arun Wadhwa from Bathinda urban, Kulwinder Singh from Bathinda rural, Mangat Singh Badal from Mansa, Kuldeep Kumar Nanda from Hoshiarpur and Aswini Sharma from Ropar.
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