Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee chief Sunil Jakhar has written to interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi calling for the expulsion of two of the party’s Rajya Sabha MPs Pratap Singh Bajwa and Shamsher Singh Dullo. Both the MPs had submitted a memorandum to the governor calling for an ED inquiry against chief minister Amarinder Singh for his alleged role in the Patiala hooch tragedy.

In his letter to Gandhi, Jakhar has urged the party high command to expel the two MPs immediately . “This time they have crossed the Lakshman Rekha”.

Jakhar has accused the two party MPs of acting’s the behest of the BJP to try and destabilise the Amarinder Singh government. ” This is indiscipline of the highest order, they are hand in glove with the BJP,” he said.

Bajwa is the only Congress politician whose security has been upgraded by the Centre. Earlier, he had Y category security and it’s now been upgraded to A category. In sharp contrast to the Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh whole security has been downgraded. The Punjab PCC chief has cited this as one of the examples to buttress his claims of a nexus between the BJP and the two rebel MPs.

In his letter to the Congress president, Jakhar has cited the example of Rajasthan dying that if the Centre had intervened when dissidence first started things would not have reached the stage it did.

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Amarinder Singh and Bajwa have been at loggerheads for several years. The CM mounted a vigorous campaign to get Bajwa removed as PCC prior to the last assembly elections and successes in replacing. The central leadership brokered a peace between the two by sending Bajwa to the Rajya Sabha. Off late Bajwa has been straining at the leash and has been criticising the state government specially the Chief Minister.

Assembly election in Punjab are due in February 2022 and the two rebel MPs appear to have decided to queer the pitch for Amarinder Singh. Party leaders from the state are worried that unless the central leadership intervenes and gets the two sides to sort out their differences the party could be faced with another Rajasthan like situation.