Despite tall claims made by Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh that there were no differences between Congress leaders in the state, reports from different parts of the state indicate that rebel candidates are posing major problems for the party.
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Shamsher Singh Dullo is spending sleepless nights trying to work out some kind of arrangement by which majority of the rebels could be asked to withdraw their candidature against the official Congress nominees for the Feburary 13 assembly elections.
Though Congress has managed to tame Jagmit Singh Brar, one of the staunchest critics of the policies and programmes of Amarinder, by asking him to file the nomination for the Amritsar by-elections, problems have come from unseen quarters.
Bir Davinder Singh, sitting legislator from Kharar who has been denied a ticket, has shot of a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi. His supporters are optimistic that the central leadership will change its mind and ask Bir to be the party candidate.
"But if this does not happen then we would chart our own course of action and our leader would be forced to file his nomination as independent candidate," one of