Congress Not To Announce 2 Chief Ministers In Rotation In Punjab: Sources
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Punjab Elections 2022: A jittery Mr Sidhu has stepped up his attack on his own party as Mr Channi seems to be the frontrunner for the post.
Congress today denied rumours of a rotational chief minister arrangement in Punjab. Rahul Gandhi will announce just one name as the chief ministerial candidate tomorrow, sources said. Amidst the heated contest for the top job in the state, there was earlier a buzz that Mr Gandhi would announce two chief ministerial candidates in his big reveal in Ludhiana on Sunday to accommodate both state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu and current chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi.
Notably, this comes a day after Mr Channi's nephew Bhupendra Singh Honey was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an illegal sand-mining case.
A jittery Mr Sidhu has stepped up his attack on his own party as Mr Channi seems to be the frontrunner for the post. The state Congress chief had yesterday launched a direct attack at his rival Charanjit Singh Channi and said the party must choose someone "honest and with a clean track record".
Congress has recently given several indications that Mr Channi was favoured for the top job. It is also running a public survey through IVR (Interactive Voice Response) calls to allow people of the state to choose who they favour for the post. Sources say Mr Channi is leading that survey as well.
