Summary:
Chandigarh, Jan 19 (PTI) Punjab minister and Congress leader Brahm Mohindra on Wednesday said the party should declare its CM face for next month’s state Assembly polls while stressing that Charanjit Singh Channi has proved himself in the role in just three months.
The local bodies minister said the Congress Party had set the tradition of declaring its chief ministerial candidate ahead of the elections in 2012 and 2017.
“It should continue with that tradition and announce the candidate sooner than later,” he said in a statement.
“There should not be any confusion in the party about announcing the chief ministerial candidate when there is already one who proved himself beyond everybody"s expectations,” Mohindra said.
Mohindra said it has become all the more important when the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has announced Bhagwant Mann as its CM candidate and Shiromani Akali Dal-Badal has already been projecting Sukhbir Singh Badal.
“Under such circumstances, the Congress Party cannot afford to leave any vacuum as it can prove detrimental to the party"s interests”, he said.