{"id":164735,"date":"2021-09-02T16:51:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=164735"},"modified":"2021-09-02T17:15:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:45:07","slug":"harish-rawat-punjab-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/harish-rawat-punjab-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Congress infighting, Harish Rawat says all is not well in Punjab party unit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Punjab Congress in-charge Harish Rawat is constantly trying to establish a rapport between CM Captain Amarinder Singh and state party chief Navjot Sidhu, but now he has also accepted that everything is not well in Punjab Congress. Rawat, on Thursday said all is not well in the grand-old party but efforts are on.  At the same time, he has also denied any discussion on the reshuffle in the Punjab cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not all is well in Congress. I don\u2019t want to hid from you. Those angry ministers who did not come to meet me, I thank them. The government did some things very well which we could not appreciate. It is due to the Amarinder Singh government that the Bargari case is out of the clutches of the CBI, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I won&#39;t say all is well, but we are heading towards it. There was no discussion on reshuffle (Punjab cabinet): Punjab Congress in-charge Harish Rawat <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BPrtKNA6dh\">pic.twitter.com\/BPrtKNA6dh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1433346084961599488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Harish Rawat&#8217;s remarks came after separate meetings with Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and Punjab Congress Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu in Chandigarh. Rawat had apprised the dissatisfied Congress leaders with the decision of the high command not to change the face of the Chief Minister in the upcoming assembly elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rawat said that he has held talks with Navjot Sidhu regarding the organization&#8217;s expansion in Punjab and other issues. It is not necessary that every person has the same views. It may differ on many issues, Rawat said. The former Uttarakhand chief minister also clarified that he has not had any talks with Amarinder Singh regarding the cabinet reshuffle. Rawat said the media has raised this issue and that he has have not had any conversation with Captain Amarinder Singh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remarks come amid speculation that Harish Rawat has been informed about the removal of two ministers close to Sidhu, Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa and Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read Also<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/kasganj-police-up-man-murder\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/kasganj-police-up-man-murder\/\">Kasganj police arrests UP man for murdering wife, 2 kids and faking his death<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria and Charanjit Singh Channi were among the four cabinet ministers who recently sought a replacement for the Punjab chief minister. The leaders had said that he has lost faith in the CM on unfulfilled promises. Sources said Harish Rawat had told Captain Amarinder Singh that the party high command was not in favor of expansion of the cabinet at this stage as dropping two ministers could lead to further dissatisfaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other India news, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/farmers-stone-pelting-punjab-sukhbir-badal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal <\/a>addressed the people in Punjab\u2019s Moga on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn mourn Sidharth Shukla\u2019s Death\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/anpqffHyYDA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remarks come amid speculation that Harish Rawat has been informed about the removal of two ministers close to Sidhu, Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa and Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":164826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[2633,106143,375,103688,2037,103141],"yst_prominent_words":[5036,5030,18361,7507,75973,75968,20926,3811,3813,61619,6678,8438,8191,48627,20936],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2021\/09\/02161626\/Harish-Rawat.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164735"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=164735"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=164735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->