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The Congress precocious bid connected Thursday (January 22, 2026) warned its Punjab leaders against making nationalist statements astir the party’s interior matters, and resorting to factionalism.
Party wide caput in-charge of organisation K.C. Venugopal said these directions had been issued aft 3 hour-long meetings of Punjab leaders with the party’s apical brass, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and elder person Rahul Gandhi.
“The enactment has fixed wide directions to each leaders to refrain from making nationalist statements,” Mr. Venugopal said, adding, “Every idiosyncratic has their ain views, but these should beryllium discussed lone with the enactment enactment oregon connected enactment forums. Going to the media and spreading issues connected societal media — specified activities volition not beryllium tolerated by the party.”
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The announcement comes hardly days aft Scheduled Caste (SC) person and erstwhile Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi made a nationalist connection that the party’s apical posts successful the State, including that of the Pradesh Congress Committee main and the Leader of the Opposition successful the Punjab Assembly, were being occupied by guardant caste leaders.
Mr. Channi’s remarks came connected January 17, portion speaking during a gathering of the Congress’s SC helping successful Chandigarh. “In Punjab, if you judge that determination is simply a colonisation of 35-38% [of SCs], which is there, past wherefore are we not getting representation?” helium had said.
“Punjab [Congress] president is from precocious caste, CLP (Congress Legislature Party) person is from precocious caste, women helping of Punjab Congress from precocious caste, Punjab [Congress] wide caput from precocious caste. Where bash we go? Where volition these radical go?” Mr. Channi had besides said.
Mr. Venugopal said that the party’s apical brass had ascertained the views of each person connected the party’s show successful Punjab.
“There is nary question of immoderate enactment alteration successful Punjab,” Mr. Venugopal said, portion replying to a question.
Responding to a question connected reports that astir 30 leaders from Punjab had sought an assignment with the enactment precocious command, Mr. Venugopal said determination was thing incorrect with leaders gathering the enactment enactment successful their idiosyncratic capacities.
However, “groupism would not beryllium tolerated astatine immoderate cost”, helium said categorically. Mr. Kharge and Mr. Gandhi would beryllium visiting Punjab for programmes, wherever leaders could conscionable them, Mr. Venugopal said.
On practice for SCs, the Congress wide caput said the enactment was committed to providing owed practice to marginalised sections, including SCs, Scheduled Tribes (STs), Other Backward Classes (OBCs), and Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) from the wide class crossed the country.
“The Congress enactment is one. We are unneurotic and we volition stay together. Everybody is one. The Congress volition combat the Punjab elections unitedly and we volition triumph with the enactment of the radical of Punjab, aaram se (easily),” Mr. Venugopal said.
The gathering was attended by Congress wide caput in-charge of Punjab Bhupesh Baghel, elder person Ambika Soni, and others.
From Punjab, the gathering was attended by Pradesh Congress Committee president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, the Leader of the Opposition successful the Punjab Assembly Partap Singh Bajwa, Mr. Channi, Congress in-charge for Rajasthan Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Vijay Inder Singla, Rana K.P. Singh, and Amar Singh.
