Bathinda, Aug. 4 -- The factional feud in the Punjab Congress marred the party's key grassroots outreach event for the third straight day on Monday as supporters of Jalandhar MP and former chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi raised slogans in his favour.

As state Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring began addressing the gathering, during the party's ongoing 'Har Booth, Congress Mazboot' campaign, on the outskirts of the city, pro-Channi loyalists started shouting slogans in the presence of All India Congress Committee (AICC) Punjab in-charge Bhupesh Baghel, and demanded that the Congress central leadership project Channi as the party's chief ministerial candidate for the high-stakes 2027 assembly polls.

As the sloganeering cont...