Former PM Manmohan Singh will release Congress' election manifesto for Punjab today. (File)
The Congress is all set to hit top gear in poll-bound Punjab as former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will release the party's election manifesto for the state in New Delhi today, coupled with parallel releases in Chandigarh and at district levels.
The Congress is expecting former BJP leader Navjot Singh Sidhu to join the Congress tomorrow.
Congress' manifesto for Punjab will be released by the former PM at party headquarters in New Delhi, in the presence of top state leaders including Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh and Rajinder Bhattal, the chairperson of the manifesto drafting panel of Punjab Congress.
State unit vice president Manpreet Badal, who was chairman of the manifesto drafting committee, will do a simultaneous release of the document in Chandigarh with senior Punjab leaders such as ex CLP leader Sunil Jakhar, former minister Preneet Kaur and Lok Sabha MP Santokh Choudhry doing district level releases at Patiala, Bathinda and Jalandhar respectively.
Various measures for the welfare of farmers, dalits and other sections of society are likely to be promised in the manifesto which the party has been working on for many months now.
Amarinder Singh had earlier met former prime minister Manmohan Singh to seek time for the document release.