"Party Will Decide": Navjot Sidhu On Chief Minister's Prashant Kishor Hint
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In March Amarinder Singh said Prashant Kishor had signed on as "principal advisor", but in August Mr Kishor resigned, saying he would "not be involved"
The Congress command will decide on hiring master poll strategist Prashant Kishor, the party's Punjab leader Navjot Sidhu said Friday, two days after Chief Minister Charanjit Channi indicated he might turn to the man who helped defeat the BJP in the 2017 Assembly election and planned the Trinamool's stunning victory in Bengal in May.
"The party will decide... if Chief Minister wishes to hire him, it is the party high command (that will) decide," Mr Sidhu told reporters at a press conference in which he both withdrew his pending resignation as state unit chief and served another ultimatum to the party.
Punjab votes for a new government next year and the feud between Sidhu and former Chief Minister (and ex Congress leader) Amarinder Singh, as well as the former cricketer's reportedly strained ties with Mr Channi, have left the ruling Congress facing a series of crises.
Principal, many believe, among those crises is Mr Sidhu himself, and his incessant swipes at his own party and government; he launched another one today, attacking the Chief Minister over the state's drug smuggling problem and the emotionally raw 2015 sacrilege case.
