Navjot Singh Sidhu writes to Sonia Gandhi, seeks motion on 13 points

Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu has written to Congress president Sonia Gandhi highlighting 13 points for the federal government to deal with within the state. In the letter, Navjot Singh Sidhu mentions that he fulfilled the accountability of protecting Captain Amarinder Singh’s authorities beneath verify, a accountability entrusted to him by the occasion.
The 13 points highlighted by Sidhu in his letter are Justice for sacrilege, medication, agriculture, electrical energy, PPAs, Scheduled caste and Backward caste welfare, employment, Single window system and comparative benefit, Women and youth empowerment, liquor, sand mining, transport and cable mafia. The letter is dated for fifteenth October however was shared on social media right now.
Sidhu’s letter to Sonia Gandhi
Sidhu says within the letter, “After multiple deliberations and consultations with party workers from across Punjab and with deep understanding of the public sentiment over 17 years of public life, I express with a lot of pain in my heart that this is Punjab’s last chance for resurrection and redemption.”
The first concern talked about by Navjot Singh Sidhu in his letter was ‘Justice for Sacrilege’. Sacrilege has been a burning concern in Punjab in latest occasions and at Kundli solely lately, a Dalit man was lynched by a gaggle of Nihang Sikhs after accusing him of the identical.
Sidhu’s letter to Sonia Gandhi
Navjot Singh Sidhu additionally says within the letter, “Giving Cheap and 24 hour supply of power to all domestic consumers, especially urban domestic consumers who suffer the most due to cross-subsidy burden upon them, as we decrease power tariff for industrial and commercial use, and give free power for agriculture. We must give fixed power subsidy to all Domestic consumers, be it decreasing price of power to 3 Rs per unit or 300 Units of free power to all.”
Sidhu’s letter to Sonia Gandhi
Sidhu additionally demanded that the Punjab Government monopolise liquor commerce within the state and convey it beneath a state-run company. Sidhu concluded his letter with the phrases, “I further request you to kindly give me a personal audience to present to you the Punjab Model with a 13-Point Agenda to be part of the Congress Manifesto for the 2022 Assembly Elections, which is separate from this by means of its long-term vision to be implemented over a longer period of time, have crafted it through years of consultations with academics, civil society, party workers and feedback from the People of Punjab.”
Sidhu’s letter to Sonia Gandhi
Earlier, after assembly Rahul Gandhi on Friday, Sidhu had withdrawn his resignation from the submit of Punjab Congress chief. A day earlier than assembly Rahul Gandhi at his residence, Sidhu had mentioned he has full religion within the occasion management and can settle for any resolution taken by them on his resignation.
On September 28, Sidhu had resigned from the submit of PPCC chief. In a letter addressed to occasion chief Sonia Gandhi, he had acknowledged that he’s stepping down because the state president. The occasion’s prime brass had, nonetheless, refused to simply accept his resignation and had requested state leaders to resolve the matter at their very own degree first.