After slugging it out offline, warring factions within the Punjab Congress are now taking the online route to push their political agendas. With less than a year left for the elections and cracks deepening, the leaders and their supporters have taken to digital media and hoarding campaigns to score over their adversaries.
Chief Minister Capt Amarinder SinghтАЩs camp has put up hoardings projecting him as the CM face for the 2022 Assembly elections. The posters тАЬSada Sanjha Nahra, Captain dobaraтАЭ have come up in various parts of the State. And these poster messages are now floating all around social media as well. The official page of тАЬPunjab Da CaptainтАЭ has already launched the campaign тАЬCaptain for 2022тАЭ. Party leaders say the hoarding war was aimed at countering the dissidents.
Not to be left behind are the dissidents, who too have initiated poster campaign to take subtle digs at the CM. Senior party leader Charanjit Singh Channi, who is among one of the ministers who are questioning the Chief Minister on тАЬunfulfilledтАЭ poll promises, has come up with a campaign, тАЬGhar Ghar Vich Chali Gal, Channi Karda Masle HalтАЭ (There is a discussion going on in every house that тАШChanniтАЩ solves everyoneтАЩs problems).
Even Navjot Singh Sidhu, who had been openly criticising the Chief Minister, has not been left unscathed. Some posters and online message of him тАШgoing missingтАЩ from the Amritsar constituency have been doing the rounds on social media. Disgruntled party legislator Pargat Singh while taking a pot shot at the online poster campaign launched by the Chief Minister, termed it as тАШchildishтАЩ. тАЬWhen you donтАЩt have work to show, this is what you do,тАЭ commented Singh.
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