Bhattal follow through may stump Congress - 2004-01-07
With elections looming large and the BJP smiling from ear to ear, Sonia Gandhi can ill-afford domestic problems. And yet on Tuesday the Congress chief was compelled to give a thumbs up to dissidence by accommodating the rebellious Rajinder Kaur Bhattal as deputy chief minister in Punjab.
The announcement, by a poker faced Mohsina Kidwai, AICC general secretary, came nearly a month after Bhattal began her campaign for the ouster of chief minister Captain Amrinder Singh.
“Captain Amrinder Singh will continue to be chief minister, and Rajinder Kaur Bhattal will be Deputy Chief Minister”, Kidwai said emphatically, looking to quash speculation on the Punjab chief minister’s immediate fate. She then announced that a cabinet expansion would be undertaken in Punjab soon and pronounced the chapter closed.
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