{"id":89445,"date":"2022-12-20T06:40:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T01:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=89445"},"modified":"2022-12-20T06:40:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T01:10:32","slug":"former-punjab-cm-channi-back-in-business-after-6-month-break-ahead-of-rahul-yatra-in-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/former-punjab-cm-channi-back-in-business-after-6-month-break-ahead-of-rahul-yatra-in-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Punjab CM Channi back in business after 6-month break, ahead of Rahul yatra in state"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New Delhi:&nbsp;<\/strong>After being away from the public eye since the Congress\u2019 humiliating defeat in Punjab earlier this year, former chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi was seen in Delhi on Monday, meeting the party\u2019s powers that be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Congress\u2019 \u2018Dalit face\u2019 in the Punjab polls \u2013 who lost both seats in the polls \u2013 met party president Mallikarjun Kharge and general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday. This was Channi\u2019s first public appearance since 3 May, the timing being significant as Rahul Gandhi\u2019s \u201cBharat Jodo Yatra\u201d enters Punjab in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tweeting after a hiatus of almost six months, Channi said he met Priyanka to congratulate her on the party\u2019s recent win in the Himachal Pradesh polls where she had campaigned for the Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the Punjab debacle in March, Channi had found no organisational role in the state unit and was learnt to be shuttling between Canada and the USA since May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As reported by ThePrint, Channi\u2019s brother had said he was using his free time to work on his PhD (from Panjab University) on the topic \u201cIndian National Congress\u2019 Central Organisation and Elections Strategy Since 2004\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress leaders, at the time, had also insinuated that Channi may have been on a \u201cpolitical exile\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, Channi discussed his possible future role in the party\u2019s Punjab unit with the two leaders, sources told ThePrint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Incidentally, the Punjab Congress was restructured after the party\u2019s loss when several old faces gave way to new ones. Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, 44, was appointed the state chief after his predecessor Navjot Singh Sidhu was shown the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi:&nbsp;After being away from the public eye since the Congress\u2019 humiliating defeat in Punjab earlier this year, former chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi was seen in Delhi on Monday, meeting the party\u2019s powers that be. The Congress\u2019 \u2018Dalit face\u2019 in the Punjab polls \u2013 who lost both seats in the polls \u2013 met party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89448,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89445\/revisions\/89448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}