Live updates: Newly-appointed Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi to hold cabinet meeting at 8pm today

Just hours after settling the political tussle in its ruled state Punjab, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi is in a holiday mood. She reached Chandigarh, the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, by air in the morning from where she headed straight to her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's cottage located amid forests of pine and cedar on the suburbs of the Himachal Pradesh capital. Sonia Gandhi is expected to stay here for two-three days and there is no engagement to meet any party functionary during the stay. Priyanka's five-room cottage -- with wooden frames and shingled exteriors and a sloping tiled roof -- is furnished with interiors at a height of more than 8,000 feet in Charabra, some 15 km uphill from here. Priyanka along with her children and mother regularly visit the cottage, just close to Wildflower Hall, on a four-bigha plus agricultural plot that was purchased in 2007.

Brahm Mohindra, a Hindu face, and Randhawa, a Jat Sikh face, are the top contenders, sources said.

Hours before he formally submitted his resignation on Saturday to the governor, Captain Amarinder Singh had on Saturday written to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, apprising her of his decision, while expressing anguish at the political events of the last five months, which he said were clearly “not based on the full understanding of the national imperatives of Punjab and its key concerns.”