Congress MP Chaudhary Santokh Singh attempts to pacify sulking Jagdish Raja, Jasleen Sethi

Jalandhar, January 21

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In an attempt to placate Jalandhar Mayor Jagdish Raja and District Women Congress chief Jasleen Sethi, Jalandhar Congress MP Chaudhary Santokh Singh hosted their meeting with Jalandhar Central MLA Rajinder Beri at his place this morning.

Raja and Sethi had been demanding replacement of Beri and had staked their claims from the seat. Chaudhary called them all at his place and asked them to support Beri, whose candidature has already been announced by the party. Chaudhary urged both to leave their grudges and offer support to Beri so that he could fight the contest well.

Other Congress leaders who were showing resentment in favour of Raja —Paramjit Bal, Tirlok Sran, Sonu Sharma, Somnath Chugitti and councillors Manmohan Raju and Gurwinder Banti Neelkanth — too were called in and assured their support to Beri.

Insiders said even as a group photograph was clicked and circulated. However, Sethi did not seem to have pacified still and was perhaps still nursing grudges against the party. She had taken to FB few days back and had put a video to show that she was angry with the party for repeating all candidates and giving no chance to new faces. —