The Congress party’s final flourish in announcing Charanjit Singh Channi as its chief ministerial face, settling its inner feud and hoping for a Dalit consolidation in favour of Mr. Channi, a Ramdasia Sikh, has not led to a change of heart in the Malwa region, where the party is desperate to hold on to its 2017 tally.
An overwhelming majority of the voters that The Hindu spoke to in two reserved constituencies of Shutrana and Dirbha in the Malwa region asserted that they want a “navi sarkar”, a new government.
