Chandigarh, June 11, 2026
The Congress President on Thursday appointed AICC observers to assess the current political scenario in Punjab and submit a report. They are Ajay Maken, Meenakshi Natarajan and Bhajan Lal Jatav.
Meanwhile, state Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said the party will fight the ensuing elections in the state under the leadership of party president Mallikarjun Kharge and the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.
Replying to a question from the media on under whose leadership the party will fight the Punjab assembly elections, Warring said the party will fight under the leadership of Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, and there is no doubt about that.
Asked about his role, he said he has always been a party worker and will continue to serve the party as a worker.
Asserting that the Congress was in a commanding position in the state, he said the writing is on the wall that the next government will be of the Congress. He added that it is the goal of every Congressman in the state, and that everyone is committed to it.
On the issue of the sacrilege and Behbal Kalan police firing, which left two people dead, Warring questioned the inertia and inaction of the AAP government led by Bhagwant Singh Mann. He wondered why the government was not taking any action despite the passage of 4.5 years and the admission of guilt by Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, who was the Home Minister at the time, before the Akal Takht.
To another question on the AAP leadership describing the Akalis and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the ‘chitta party’ and the ‘ED-party’, he said the BJP was undoubtedly misusing the agencies against Opposition leaders across the country, but the AAP was no less, as it was misusing the Vigilance Department against its political opponents in Punjab. “While the BJP is the ED-party, the AAP is the Vigilance-Party,” he remarked.
On Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu, Warring said he had already lost his relevance in Punjab, noting that he was no longer going to be the Rajya Sabha MP and may soon lose his ministry also. He said it was the Congress only that respected and ensured the relevance of leaders, which Bittu must have realised by now.(Agency)
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