The five leaders are current PCC spokesperson Sukhpal Khaira, Supreme Court advocate Jaiveer Shergil, former Finance Minister Balwant Singh’s son Rajanbir Singh, Punjab Mahila Congress vice-president Nimisha Mehta and party’s youth strategist Raman Kumar.
PCC chief Partap Singh Bajwa said the five leaders had been chosen in keeping with the party’s decision to groom leaders who could deal with the media effectively.
Sources said while the recommendation of Khaira was on the expected lines as he was already functioning as the party spokesperson in the state, the state Congress had gone in for fresh talent in the case of the other four.
They said Shergil had been chosen primarily because of the inputs given by him on the media front to the party as well as liaisoning done by him in Delhi. He is also responsible for creating a helpline to collate as well as help the victims of “Akali repression”. The helpline is already functioning in Amritsar.
Rajanbir is a Bajwa loyalist who has been working behind the scenes for him. Earlier, he had been appointed Secretary in the PCC office but that appointment was withdrawn at the insistence of the party high command.
Raman Kumar is a back-end strategist who has served as party spokesman in the past too. Mahila Congress leader Nimisha Mehta carved a niche for herself recently by taking up social issues effectively in the media.
