Chandigarh: Congress MP from Jalandhar, Charanjit Singh Channi, was conspicuous by his absence when party leader Rahul Gandhi spoke in a debate in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, bringing to the fore the recent rift within the party's state unit.
Instead, the former Punjab chief minister was in Faridkot on Wednesday to take part in a protest to demand the resignation of the state's health and education ministers over the alleged paper leak in the recent pharmacy officers' recruitment examination.