UPDATED: May 1, 2021 18:57 IST
CM Amarinder at a press meet in March, on the occasion of his government’s four years in power
There’s hardly a year left for the next assembly election, and Punjab chief minister, Capt. Amarinder Singh can ill afford to be seen stranded alone in a political crisis. On April 10, the Punjab and Haryana High Court quashed the SIT (special investigation team) report in a 2015 case on the desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib. Seen by many in the state as a travesty of the judicial process, the issue has snowballed into a political crisis for the chief minister. The latest to join the band of critics are two of his confidants—Congress state unit chief Sunil Jakhar and cooperatives minister Sukhjinder Randhawa. Both of them resigned from their posts on April 26.