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Channi skips Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha speech amid Punjab Congress rift
Congress MP Charanjit Singh Channi was absent when party leader Rahul Gandhi spoke in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, even as all six other Punjab Congress MPs attended. The former Punjab chief…
The Story in Brief
Congress MP Charanjit Singh Channi was absent when party leader Rahul Gandhi spoke in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, even as all six other Punjab Congress MPs attended. The former Punjab chief minister was instead in Faridkot at a protest demanding the resignation of the state's health and education ministers over an alleged paper leak in a recruitment exam.
The Hans India reports that Channi's absence comes weeks after he met Congress general secretary K C Venugopal on July 16 and said 'all is well'. The party's Punjab unit has been frayed by infighting since the Congress decided to retain Amrinder Singh Raja Warring as state president while making Channi campaign committee chairperson.
The Indian Opinion
The optics of a Congress MP skipping Rahul Gandhi's first major Lok Sabha speech are hard to spin away. Party insiders call this a routine protest, but the public sees a leader nursing a slight over a party post. If Channi wants to show he is still a team player, he should let his attendance record in the coming weeks speak louder than his attendance at protests.
Source: thehansindia.com
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