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Channi nudges Congress to name candidate for CM, with a hint: he is quite popular

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Channi nudges Congress to name candidate for CM, with a hint: he is quite popular

Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi said on Tuesday the party “should announce” its chief minister candidate, a sign of more trouble for Congress ahead of the Punjab election as the party faces infighting. “As long as the party doesn’t announce a CM candidate, it loses,” he said.

Channi made the remarks in an interview with local channel Pro Punjab TV in response to a question about whether Congress should announce its CM candidate.

“When the party announced its CM candidate in the 2017 election, it won. Before that, when it did not announce a candidate, it lost. Whenever the party did not announce a CM candidate, it lost so the party should announce,” he said. He went to say he was a popular leader, and people waved at him and broke barricades to greet him. However, Channi declined to comment when asked who should be the CM candidate. He said the party would decide that.

Channi’s statement comes as Congress has made it clear that it will not announce its CM candidates before parliamentary elections.

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Until a few days ago, Punjab PCC chairman Navjot Singh Sidhu was pushing the party’s top command to announce the CM candidate. Sidhu said he should be declared a CM candidate and said he has a Punjab agenda and a roadmap to implement it. He also said AAP lost the 2017 election because it had no CM candidates.

While Sidhu has not raised the issue since last week’s meeting of Congress general secretary KC Venugopal with three Punjab cabinet ministers, he officially launched his “Punjab model” on Tuesday, saying it would become the party’s manifesto a part of.

A PTI report also quoted Sidhu as saying that the people of Punjab would choose the CM over the top command of the party. In response to a question, he was quoted as saying: “Who told you that the High Command would be the CM? … The Punjabis will elect the priorities and the Punjabis will also be the CMs.”

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Who is Harun Abdul-Malik Yener? Florida man arrested over bomb threat to New York Stock Exchange

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Who is Harun Abdul-Malik Yener? Florida man arrested over bomb threat to New York Stock Exchange

FBI arrested Harun Abdul-Malik Yener for allegedly planning a bombing at the NYSE to “reset” the US government.

Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, a South Florida resident, has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly plotting to bomb the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as part of a plan to “reset” or “reboot” the U.S. government. According to unsealed court documents, Yener faces charges of attempting to use an improvised explosive device (IED) against a “building used in interstate or foreign commerce.”

The investigation into Yener began in February when the FBI received a tip about his possession of bomb-making plans stored in a locked Coral Springs storage unit. Upon executing a search warrant, agents discovered “bomb-making sketches, numerous watches with timers, electronic circuit boards, and other electronics” that could be used to construct explosives, per the criminal complaint.

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Court documents reveal that Yener was not only active on YouTube, posting videos on making explosives and fireworks, but also had a history of making threats.

Harun Abdul-Malik Yener wanted to ‘reset’ US government

Back in March, Yener admitted to undercover federal agents that he had experience in creating “rockets” and “bombs” and had previously sought to join a “domestic extremist group.” He also revealed that in 2015, he had considered travelling to Iraq to join ISIS but ultimately decided against it, doubting the group’s ability to accomplish “their objectives.”

Yener also attempted to join extremist groups such as the Boogaloo Bois and the Proud Boys but was reportedly denied membership due to his stated desire to “pursue martyrdom.”

Yener allegedly shared his plot to attack the NYSE with an undercover FBI agent, identifying November 18 as his intended date for the bombing. He wanted to “reboot” or “reset” US government through the “bombing”.

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“There is one place that would be hella easy… the stock exchange, that would be a great hit. Tons of people would support it. They would see it and think, dude, this guy makes sense, they are [profanity] robbing us. So that’s perfect,” he told the undercover agent.

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On November 12, Yener reportedly made several audio recordings he planned to send to NBC News following the attack. He expressed his vision of the explosion as being comparable to a nuclear event, saying, “I feel like Bin Laden.” He allegedly added that the detonation would ensure “[a]nything outside” the building “will be wiped out” and “anything inside there would be killed.”

Following his arrest, Yener made his first court appearance and remains in custody as he awaits trial.

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