India, July 11 -- For months now, "compromised" has been the Congress's word of choice for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On Saturday, it turned up inside the party's own house, in a spat over who should lead the Congress in Punjab.

After a meeting between Congress national unit's Punjab in-charge Bhupesh Baghel and leaders close to former CM Charanjit Singh Channi, senior party leader Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa from Channi's camp said the party needed "a leader who speaks forcefully" and "not a compromising leader".

Channi, 63, a leader from the Dalit community whom Rahul Gandhi reportedly chose as CM in the last big Congress rift before the 2022 polls when Capt Amarinder Singh was removed, was standing next to Randhawa, nodding along. T...