Punjab Congress crisis: Ghulam Nabi Azad writes to Sonia Gandhi, calls for urgent party meeting
Amid a fresh crisis in the Punjab Congress, senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has written a letter to party's interim president Sonia Gandhi asking her to convene a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) on an urgent basis, sources said on Wednesday.
Senior leader Kapil Sibal, at his press conference on Tuesday, also pointed towards his colleague from the party writing a letter to the leadership. "I believe that one of my senior colleagues has perhaps written or is about to write to the Congress president to immediately convene a Congress Working Committee so that a dialogue can take place as to why we are in this state," he said.
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In a dramatic turn of events that took place in the Punjab Congress on Tuesday, PCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu tendered his resignation from the post of president of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee. Following this, a number of resignation letters poured in from the leaders and a minister, who are considered to be supporters of Sidhu.
Former Goa Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro also quit the party recently and joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Wednesday. After his resignation, he has remarked that the Congress is fragmented and noted there is a need to unify the factions of the party spread across the country.
-With inputs from ANI
