00:00Before the Assembly elections, Punjab Congress is now facing fresh turbulence.
00:04Raja Waring's resignation as State Chief has once again brought the party's internal fault lines into focus with rival camps,
00:11now openly jostling for control and the BJP and ARP turning up the heat.
00:16Take a look at this report.
00:21New challenge for the Congress in Punjab, just months ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections.
00:27As the Congress tries to put its house in order, its State Chief Amrinder Singh Raja Waring has resigned after
00:35more than four years at the helm.
00:38Raja Waring, one of party's key leaders in Punjab, met Rahul Gandhi in Delhi on Friday.
00:44While Waring said Rahul had always shown him love and affection, he also added that the newly appointed Punjab in
00:50charge, Sachin Pailat, wanted him removed.
00:53Sachin Pailat ji, we were in charge of our five ways.
01:01And today, there will be two ways.
01:03It will be about one month, two hours.
01:06The government came for two hours.
01:07And after that, they were saying that it was my election.
01:13And then, it will not come.
01:15It will be possible that they are listening to a report.
01:20And then came another pointed message, this time for former Chief Minister, Charanjeet Singh Channi.
01:45A group of Congress leaders led by Charanjeet Channi had been seeking warings removal since July.
01:52His resignation now ends a tenure that began in April 2022 after Navjot Singh Siddhu stepped aside following Congress's defeat
02:02in the Assembly elections at the hands of Armadmi Party.
02:06Raja Waring has described himself as a disciplined soldier of the party, ready to work wherever he is assigned.
02:12But his next exit also exposes the larger problem confronting the Congress, a party still struggling to settle its internal
02:20power equations in Punjab.
02:24India today has learned that former Minister Vijay Inder Singla, Jalandhar Kintourman MLA and former hockey captain Pargat Singh,
02:32former Chief Minister Charanjeet Singh Channi and Gurdaspur MP Sukhjinder Singh Randhava are among the names in contention.
02:40The internal rift has given the BJP and the Armadmi Party fresh ammunition against the Congress.
02:47Punjab BJP Chief Keval Dhillon says the factional fight will not end with warings resignation.
03:09And Chief Minister Bhagawan Tmaan has launched an even sharper attack, saying Congress has fewer karekartas, but more leaders aspiring
03:17to become the Chief Minister.
03:29Jalandhar Kintourman, Jalandhar Kintourman MLA and former bomber leader of the party,
03:35because the question for Congress in Punjab is no longer just who replaces Raja Waring, it is whether the party
03:41can zero in on its next leader without any more damage.
03:46With Maasmi Singh and Aseem Bassi, Bureau Report, India Today.
