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Punjab Assembly Elections 2022: Rahul Gandhi to yell Congress’ CM candidate on February 6

Reported By: | Edited By: DNA Web Crew |Source: PTI |Up in the past: Feb 02, 2022, 11: 28 PM IST

The Congress is probably going to whine its chief ministerial face for Punjab on February 6 when ancient party chief Rahul Gandhi will consult with the ballot-certain narrate, party sources acknowledged.

Rahul Gandhi had announced within the course of his remaining consult with to Punjab on January 27 that the Congress will dart into the Punjab Assembly election with a CM face and the resolution on this would even be taken quickly after consulting party workers.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has already started consultations with party leaders and workers on the manager ministerial candidate. The party is in quest of responses from Congress leaders and workers through its Shakti app, the sources acknowledged.

The party has furthermore sought the idea of total of us on the whine and the path of has started within the relaxation two days. The sources acknowledged Rahul Gandhi is probably going to consult with Punjab on Sunday, February 6, and would possibly perchance perchance presumably also invent the necessary announcement.

Over the previous just a few weeks, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and narrate Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu enjoy, straight or circuitously, made a case for themselves to be declared as the party’s chief ministerial candidate.

The Congress appears to be like to be hanging its weight behind Channi, who belongs to the Scheduled Caste community and has been fielded from two assembly seats of Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur.

The SCs and STs had been a typical vote bank of the Congress, but they drifted a ways from the party following the emergence of the Bahujan Samaj Celebration (BSP) and a few varied minute groups.

The Congress is now in quest of to consolidate the SC vote bank, which contains nearly one-third of Punjab’s population, by picking Channi to interchange ancient chief minister Amarinder Singh. A 3-time MLA from Chamkaur Sahib, Channi is the main Dalit chief minister of Punjab.

He’s the trusty party candidate to be fielded from two seats. Congress has adopted the ‘one family, one seat’ formula in allocating tickets to its candidates in Punjab. Rahul Gandhi while addressing a virtual rally in Jalandhar remaining week had acknowledged that Channi and Sidhu enjoy assured him that whosoever is chosen as the CM face, the varied will give a enhance to him.

Gandhi made the negate after Sidhu on the rally demanded that the party show the CM face for the polls and acknowledged he doesn’t want to be a “showpiece”. Variations within the party persisted to simmer even after the ouster of Amarinder Singh and Channi’s elevation to the post.

The Congress is in quest of to defend energy in Punjab and is pitted against the AAP, the SAD-BSP, and the BJP that has joined fingers with Amarinder Singh’s Punjab Lok Congress and Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa’s Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt).

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