India, Sept. 13 -- Congress will contest Punjab polls collectively without a CM face, with Rahul Gandhi as central campaign face.

The Congress high command's decision to replace Bhupesh Baghel with Sachin Pilot as Punjab affairs in charge has failed to immediately end the factional divide in the state unit, with the latest sign of discord emerging when former Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and several of his senior supporters staying away from a protest led by Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring in Chandigarh. The development has put Pilot's new assignment under immediate pressure. He was brought in after the high command concluded that Baghel had failed to contain the prolonged dispute between the Warring and C...