PAC controversy being sorted out: C P Joshi

Congress in charge of Bengal C P Joshi said AICC was in the process of sorting out the PAC chairman issue.
"Today we held a meeting in New Delhi and we have discussed the matter and it is in the process of being sorted out," Joshi told PTI.
Asked about the outcome of the meeting, state Congress president Adhir Chowdhury said, "The decision over giving the post of PAC chairman to the CPI-M was taken by our party supremo Sonia Gandhi. Now if our party supremo endorses the decision of Manas Bhuniya keeping the PAC chairman's post, then I have no problem. Whatever Sonia Gandhi decides we will follow that."

According to state Congress sources here, under the instruction of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, Joshi summoned Leader of Opposition Abdul Mannan, Bengal Congress president Adhir Chowdhury and senior Congress MLA and PAC chairman Manas Bhuniya to discuss the issue.
After the meeting Mannan claimed that Bhunia had been asked to write a letter to AICC.
"C P Joshi had clearly stated that the decision of the state Congress to give the post of PAC chairman to the CPI-M had been approved by the AICC," Mannan told PTI.

When contacted, Bhuniya only said, "C P Joshi has given me a few suggestions. I will look into them. I have been asked to write a letter stating the series of events and my desire to continue as PAC chairman. But I want to clearly state that I was PAC chairman and want to work as PAC chairman."

Bhuniya had been showcased sometime back after he refused to step down from the post despite repeated requests by party leaders. Thirty-nine Congress MLAs had also jointly appealed to Bhuniya to resign from that post.
Not only did Bhuniya not resign from the PAC chairman's post, he convened a meeting of the committee, which PAC members belonging to Congress and the Left did not attend.
Bhuniya had asked Chowdhury to let him work as PAC chairman for a year.
Congress had wanted to give the PAC chairman's post to CPI-M, with which it had contested the West Bengal Assembly election.