Punjab minister Razia Sultana quits ‘in solidarity with’ Sidhu

Punjab minister Razia Sultana has introduced she is resigning from the cupboard “in solidarity” with Navjot Singh Sidhu, who give up as state Congress chief on Tuesday.

“I, Razia Sultana, hereby resign as cupboard minister, Punjab, in solidarity with Navjot Singh Sidhu, PPCC president, and tens of millions of Congress employees throughout the state,” she stated in her resignation letter despatched to chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi.

Like Sidhu, she too politely supplied to proceed to work for the social gathering. The resignations got here hours after CM Channi allotted portfolios to his new cupboard.

Sultana was allotted departments of water provide and sanitation, social safety, girls and little one improvement and printing and stationery.

Earlier, she held the cost of the transport division within the Amarinder Singh-led authorities.

“My heartfelt due to Sonia Gandhiji, hon’ble Congress president, and Rahul Gandhiji for his or her numerous blessings on me and my household in our hours of want,” her letter stated.

Sultana is taken into account near Sidhu and her husband Mohd Mustafa, a former IPS officer, is a principal strategic adviser to the Congress chief. Each Razia and Mustafa went to Patiala to fulfill Sidhu at his residence.

Sidhu earlier within the day resigned because the chief of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, plunging the social gathering right into a contemporary disaster simply months forward of the meeting elections within the state.