New Delhi: Congress high command on Saturday appointed MLA Amrinder Raja Warring as Punjab Congress president, days after Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned from the post after the party’s debacle in the recently held assembly elections.
Party also appointed former state Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa as the leader of Congress Legislature Party in the Punjab Assembly.
Meanwhile, former Punjab minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu has been appointed as Punjab Congress working president and Chabbewal MLA Raj Kumar to be the deputy CLP leader in the assembly.
Warring, who is close to Rahul Gandhi, had also served as national youth president of Congress.