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Capt Amarinder Singh comes out from the Congress war room after meeting with the Congress panel on Punjab in New Delhi.
JALANDHAR: The challenges that Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh is facing, while struggling to stay in the saddle for the 2022 assembly polls and fighting the perception battle, is a study in contrast to the level of support he enjoyed in 2015, when he was trying to take control of the party in Punjab and his own projection as the CM for the 2017 elections.
Captain Amarinder was not even the Punjab Congress president, the post he lost to Partap Singh Bajwa after the party suffered a consecutive poll defeat in 2012, when he launched “Mission 2017” in the middle of 2015 and had the support of around three dozen MLAs. In contrast, when Congress has 80 MLAs and he is in power, the number of legislators and ministers who have spoken up openly in his support during the ongoing crisis barely make a dozen.