'Sidhu is an important asset for the party's future': Rawat
GS PAUL
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, October 2
Navjot Singh Sidhu would play a vital role to make former AICC president Rahul Gandhi’s tractor rally a success.
This rally has been rescheduled for October 4 from Moga, before entering Haryana on October 6, in support of farming community’s contest against the farm acts enacted by the NDA-led Centre government.
This was disclosed by AICC’s general secretary, and Punjab affairs in-charge Harish Rawat, who commemorated Gandhi Jayanti programme along with cabinet minister OP Sonia, and MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla at Company Bagh on Friday.
Earlier, Rawat held a closed-door meeting with Sidhu at his residence on Thursday evening.
Insiders said, that Rahul’s tractor rally was also being utilised as a “relaunching pad” for Sidhu in the mainstream political programmes of Congress, and show a united face.
Sidhu had maintained a distance from party affairs, since June 2019, when he quit Captain Amarinder’s cabinet.
Rawat told, that Sidhu would certainly participate in Rahul Gandhi’s tractor rally.
“I, myself, would take Sidhu to attend the programme that was to commence from Moga. Sidhu’s participation is vital for the party on all fronts. He is our most important asset for the future. The party would certainly utilise his services and capacity. You may see his frequent participation in party programmes”, he said.
On CM-Sidhu feud, he said: “Leave some work for me to do. If there are differences, I will work as a conduit between them”.
About SAD and BJP, he said: “ In Punjab, we have two ‘tops’ (cannons)-Capt. Amarinder is ‘anubhavi top’ and Sidhu has ‘Janta ki pyar ki top’ (crowd puller). Both are enough to counter them. SAD has lost ground due to their ‘sins’ of the past and BJP has been cornered due to the controversial farm Acts. So both have no future”.
SAD’s move to take out ‘Kisan rally’ from three Takhts-Akal Takht, Takht Damdama Sahib and Takht Kesgarh Sahib to have to be countered by the Congress in this ‘credit war’ on agrarian crisis and the star campaigner Sidhu could bring dividends for the party.
