Politics
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.
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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IDF releases video of Hamas’ Yahya Sinwar dodging drone moments before death
Yahya Sinwar, who was the alleged mastermind behind the October 7 attacks, was killed in Gaza on Wednesday.
The Israeli Defence Forces or IDF released footage from a drone on Friday that captured Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar moments before his death in a firefight against the troops in Gaza’s Rafah on Wednesday.
The video shows a building filled with debris, where a man is sitting on an armchair covered with dust with his face wrapped, who is supposedly Sinwar. He then proceeds to throw a stick towards, the drone but misses.
Also Read: Yahya Sinwar killed: Why is Hamas chief death significant?
Along with Sinwar, the IDF also confirmed the death of two other “terrorists”.
Yahya Sinwar took over as the chief of Hamas after the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in July 2024. He was supposedly the architect of the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which sparked the conflict in the Gaza strip.
Also Read: Yahya Sinwar death live updates: Netanyahu vows Gaza war ‘not over’ after Israel kills Hamas chief
Sinwar’s death has been celebrated by Israel as well as its key allies, the US and France.
After Sinwar’s death Israeli prime minister Netanyahu released a video statement, where he stated, “Today we have settled the score. Today evil has been dealt a blow but our task has still not been completed.”
U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller called Sinwar the “chief obstacle” to ending the war and expressed hope for more headway in the peace process.
French president Emmanuel Macron has also expressed the hope that hostages will be returned now that the political head of the militant organisation is dead.
However, Iran, has stated that the death of Sinwar will only serve as a catalyst for further resistance against Israel.
The Hezbollah also proclaimed that after the death of Sinwar they were going to “transition to a new and escalating phase in the confrontation with Israel.”
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