Masterstroke or dud: Will Congress’s choice of crowning a Dalit as Punjab CM backfire?
India Today
The delay, backstage deliberations and calculations tell a story why the Congress’s seemingly “masterstroke” of crowning a Dalit as chief minister of Punjab is fraught with apprehensions and hiccups.
It took Navjot Singh Sidhu almost three-and-a-half hours to go public supporting and endorsing Charanjit Singh Channi’s elevation as chief minister of Punjab. The delay, backstage deliberations and calculations tell a story why the Congress’s seemingly “masterstroke” of crowning a Dalit as chief minister of Punjab is fraught with apprehensions and hiccups.
Harish Rawat, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary in charge of Punjab, took to a twitter route to announce Channi as chief minister at 5:36 pm. Sidhu responded at 8:56 pm hailing it as a ‘historic decision’.
