Rahul Gandhi puts onus on party cadre to tick CM face- Sidhu or Channi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a virtual rally in Jalandhar. He said, "We will ask Congress workers to decide Punjab Chief Ministerial candidate."

Amritsar: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressed a virtual rally in Jalandhar today and said the party will go to the Punjab Assembly polls with a CM face and the decision on it will be taken soon after consulting party workers.

Rahul said both Channi and Sidhu told him that the biggest question in Punjab is who will lead the Congress in the state.

In the virtual rally, he said, "We will ask Congress workers to decide Punjab Chief Ministerial candidate. Normally, we don't do this but if the Congress party, our workers, and Punjab want this, we will make a decision on the CM face," he said.

Gandhi in Punjab said, "Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi & State Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu assured me that whoever will lead Punjab, the other person will support him."

Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi who was present during the gathering said, "There is no fight between us. Announce chief minister face for Punjab polls, we (Punjab Congress) will stand united." Meanwhile, Sidhu said people want clarity on who will implement the agenda and roadmap.

Earlier, Congress National General Secretary Rahul Gandhi arrived in Punjab on Thursday on his first election visit and visited the Golden Temple ahead of his virtual rally in Jalandhar. He took partake 'langar' along with party candidates at the Golden Temple and also visited Durgaina Temple and the Bhagwan Valmiki Tirath Sthal.

Significantly, BJP's Manjinder Singh Sirsa tweeted about Rahul Gandhi's visit to Sri Harmandir Sahib and satirised Operation Blue Star, saying that if Rahul Gandhi had seen the bullet marks in Darbar Sahib and felt the screams and bloodshed there, he should have been embarrassed and apologised for the family's mistakes.

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  अगर तुमने दरबार साहिब में उन गोलियों के निशान देखे होते, उन चीख चिंघाड़ों को और उस खूनी मंजर को महसूस किया होता तो तुम आज ज़रूर अपने परिवार की करतूतों के लिये शर्मिंदा भी होते और माफ़ी भी माँगते@ANI https://t.co/FikfZX3DmT

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  •@RahulGandhi काश सच में तुमने “हर मन हरमंदिर साहिब” मन में समझा होता!
  
  अगर तुमने दरबार साहिब में उन गोलियों के निशान देखे होते, उन चीख चिंघाड़ों को और उस खूनी मंजर को महसूस किया होता तो तुम आज ज़रूर अपने परिवार की करतूतों के लिये शर्मिंदा भी होते और माफ़ी भी माँगते@ANI https://t.co/FikfZX3DmT

  — Manjinder Singh Sirsa (@mssirsa) January 27, 2022

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  •@RahulGandhi काश सच में तुमने “हर मन हरमंदिर साहिब” मन में समझा होता!
  
  अगर तुमने दरबार साहिब में उन गोलियों के निशान देखे होते, उन चीख चिंघाड़ों को और उस खूनी मंजर को महसूस किया होता तो तुम आज ज़रूर अपने परिवार की करतूतों के लिये शर्मिंदा भी होते और माफ़ी भी माँगते@ANI https://t.co/FikfZX3DmT

  — Manjinder Singh Sirsa (@mssirsa) January 27, 2022

Meanwhile, along with CM Channi and State Congress Chief, assembly election candidates were also present during Rahul Gandhi's visit to Amritsar but the absence of the five Congress MPs from the state raises big questions, will Rahul Gandhi get the credit of his visit to Punjab in elections?

Consequently, the five MPs including Jasbir Singh Dimpa, Ravneet Singh Bittu, Manish Tiwari, Mohammad Sadiq and Preneet Kaur said that they had not received any invitation.

(With agency inputs)