Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh is facing a crisis born out of his very successThe crisis in the Congress in Punjab has been smouldering beneath the surface for a long time, before the current eruption. Rebel leader Navjot Singh Sidhu’s relentless open battle against the Chief Minister has now cast a long shadow on the party’s prospects. High power tariffs, power cuts, a high unemployment rate and unchecked drug trafficking have exposed the chinks in the armour of the Chief Minister. The Chief Minister took the committee deliberations as a slight, and his detractors, as an open season. Meanwhile, the unmistakable, though oblique, endorsement of Mr. Sidhu by the Gandhi family has complicated the scene further.

Source: The Hindu July 05, 2021 18:22 UTC