CHANDIGARH: Congress leaders continued to be anxious ahead of
Rahul Gandhi’s virtual rally in Ludhiana on Sunday to announce the chief ministerial face of the party for the Punjab Assembly elections.
Party leaders said
Rahul will address the rally digitally at 2pm and it will be telecast in all 117 Assembly constituencies in the state through LED screens being put up by the party candidates.
The Punjab Congress tweeted a video on Saturday to say that the wait was over, giving the date and time of February 6, 2pm for the announcement. “Countdown begins,” says the video with a picture of Rahul with
Channi
and
Sidhu by his side.Both chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi and PPCC president
Navjot Singh Sidhu are hopeful of being named the CM-pick, even though the party leadership has indicated that Channi is the frontrunner.
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