By means of PTI
CHANDIGARH: The BJP on Sunday wondered the locus standi of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to announce his birthday party’s leader ministerial face for the Punjab Meeting polls, pronouncing he does not grasp any place within the birthday party presently.
Rahul Gandhi on Sunday arrived in Ludhiana for a digital rally and he’s going to announce the executive ministerial face of the birthday party.
“Rahul Gandhi does no longer grasp any place within the birthday party so in what capability and authority will he be saying the birthday party’s CM candidate as of late,” Union Minister for Jal Shakti and BJP chief Gajendra Singh Shekhawat requested in a commentary.
Whilst opting for the CM candidate is certainly the birthday party’s prerogative however other people of Punjab want to know what authority Gandhi has within the birthday party presently, instead of being probably the most 50-odd MPs belonging to the Congress, he mentioned.
Shekhawat mentioned Gandhi had resigned because the Congress president in 2019 within the aftermath of the birthday party’s defeat within the Lok Sabha polls.
His best qualification now’s that he possesses the surname “Gandhi” surname, he mentioned.
The union minister additionally criticised the Congress for with the exception of from the CM race Sunil Jakhar “simply because he belonged to a selected faith”.
“The Congress birthday party owes a proof no longer best to the folk of Punjab however the nation as a complete, as to why Mr Jakhar used to be no longer regarded as for the CM’s place,” mentioned Shekhawat.
Sunil Jakhar had claimed not too long ago that 42 MLAs sought after him to be the executive minister of the state after the unceremonious go out of Amarinder Singh closing yr.
Jakhar might be heard pronouncing this in a video, which had surfaced on-line, whilst addressing a meeting in Abohar on Tuesday.