Far away in Canada and US, absent Channi remains mum on kin trouble

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Far away in Canada and US, absent Channi remains mum on kin trouble
Sources in the Congress said that after the poll rout – including his own defeat from both the constituencies he contested from, Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur – Channi has gone into a “self-imposed” political exile.
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Written by Kanchan Vasdev | Chandigarh |
Updated: August 5, 2022 6:42:22 am

Following the Congress Assembly poll loss, getting only 18 of 117 seats, Channi had told the media that he would “keep doing my duty towards the public”, and be among them. (Express photo by Prem Nath Pandey)
To those waiting to see if former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi would end his long hiatus from public over the Health Minister pulling up his sister-in-law and transferring her, he disappointed them again.

Four months after the Channi government was voted out of power in the Assembly elections that were swept by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Dalit leader, who for a while sparked Congress hopes in the state, remains missing without a trace – including on the ground, and even in statements or reactions to political developments.