Channi, senior Congress leaders to meet Bhupesh Baghel after Punjab leadership remarks

Chandigarh: Former Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi and some senior Congress leaders considered close to him will hold a meeting with party state general secretary in-charge Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday, three days after he ruled out any change in the state party leadership.

Sources said Channi, Sukhjinder Randhawa and Rana Gurjit could be among the leaders to meet Baghel. In a recent development, Former Union minister Buta Singh's family on Friday demanded that Channi, also an MP from Jalandhar, be the party's chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming assembly polls due early next year. The late Buta Singh's son Sarabjot Singh and daughter Gurkirat Kaur, who called on Channi at his residence, spoke to the media in the presence of Jalandhar MP.