Ansible pauses after trying to run a task to copy template to destination - linux

Question

I am trying to automate deployment for ubuntu 19 and in order to that I am loading my preseed file into the initial ram disk. I am successfully able to extract the contents of the initrd using gunzip and cpio or load into a temp folder which i will zip up to initrd.cpio.gz so the kernel can read it during boot.
The issue I am having is when I copy my preseed.cfg.j2 to dest: preseed.cfg because it is a template. A task that shouldn't require much effort is pausing on me.
eTASK [ubuntu19 : Move Preseed File to the root directory of tmpinitrd = temp dir we will compress to initrd.cpio.gz] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************
task path: /root/csc_os_deploy/roles/ubuntu19/tasks/image_preparation.yml:112
changed: [myhost -> ansible-build-99] => {
"changed": true,
"checksum": "2912bc8310b18001a31dfdba3b12e254e097d88a",
"dest": "/opt/deploy/build/ubuntu19/myhost/install/tmpinitrd/preseed.cfg",
"diff": [],
"gid": 0,
"group": "root",
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"_original_basename": "preseed.cfg.j2",
"attributes": null,
"backup": false,
"checksum": "2912bc8310b18001a31dfdba3b12e254e097d88a",
"content": null,
"delimiter": null,
"dest": "/opt/deploy/build/ubuntu19/myhost/install/tmpinitrd/preseed.cfg",
"directory_mode": null,
"follow": false,
"force": true,
"group": null,
"local_follow": null,
"mode": null,
"owner": null,
"regexp": null,
"remote_src": null,
"selevel": null,
"serole": null,
"setype": null,
"seuser": null,
"src": "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1571431258.4919047-41099342027844/source",
"unsafe_writes": null,
"validate": null
}
},
"md5sum": "8be3aab512be1a959fc8bc716fa1f530",
"mode": "0644",
"owner": "root",
"size": 16627,
"src": "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1571431258.4919047-41099342027844/source",
"state": "file",
"uid": 0
}
<ansible-build-99> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<ansible-build-99> SSH: EXEC sshpass -d10 ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o 'User="root"' -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/root/.ansible/cp/c6405ad5d4 ansible-build-99 '/bin/sh -c '"'"'echo ~root && sleep 0'"'"''
<ansible-build-99> (0, b'/root\n', b'')
<ansible-build-99> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<ansible-build-99> SSH: EXEC sshpass -d10 ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o 'User="root"' -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/root/.ansible/cp/c6405ad5d4 ansible-build-99 '/bin/sh -c '"'"'( umask 77 && mkdir -p "` echo /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1571431259.6397204-26088703665992 `" && echo ansible-tmp-1571431259.6397204-26088703665992="` echo /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1571431259.6397204-26088703665992 `" ) && sleep 0'"'"''
<ansible-build-99> (0, b'ansible-tmp-1571431259.6397204-26088703665992=/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1571431259.6397204-26088703665992\n', b'')
Using module file /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible/modules/commands/command.py
<ansible-build-99> PUT /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-31522g5qin4hz/tmpq75usr7y TO /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1571431259.6397204-26088703665992/AnsiballZ_command.py
<ansible-build-99> SSH: EXEC sshpass -d10 sftp -o BatchMode=no -b - -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o 'User="root"' -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/root/.ansible/cp/c6405ad5d4 '[ansible-build-99]'
<ansible-build-99> (0, b'sftp> put /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-31522g5qin4hz/tmpq75usr7y /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1571431259.6397204-26088703665992/AnsiballZ_command.py\n', b'')
<ansible-build-99> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<ansible-build-99> SSH: EXEC sshpass -d10 ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o 'User="root"' -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/root/.ansible/cp/c6405ad5d4 ansible-build-99 '/bin/sh -c '"'"'chmod u+x /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1571431259.6397204-26088703665992/ /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1571431259.6397204-26088703665992/AnsiballZ_command.py && sleep 0'"'"''
<ansible-build-99> (0, b'', b'')
<ansible-build-99> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<ansible-build-99> SSH: EXEC sshpass -d10 ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o 'User="root"' -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/root/.ansible/cp/c6405ad5d4 -tt ansible-build-99 '/bin/sh -c '"'"'/usr/bin/python /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1571431259.6397204-26088703665992/AnsiballZ_command.py && sleep 0'"'"''
Nothing happens after this, it freezes!!