Chandigarh-Punjab Congress faces renewed internal pressure on PCC chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, with reports of meetings among senior leaders excluding him and calls for his resignation.A post on X by the account Corridors of Punjab (@Corridor_Punjab) on July 26, 2026, highlighted “another important meeting” without Raja Warring. It described him as a PCC President who has “lost the confidence of a huge majority of Punjab Congress leaders, workers, and the cadre.” The post linked this to an earlier meeting at Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa’s farm, where discussions on the party’s future course reportedly began, and warned that ignoring internal concerns could be costly. It ended with a direct call: “Resign Raja Warring. Save Congress.”This comes against the backdrop of a months-long factional tussle in the Punjab unit ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections. In early July 2026, the Congress high command retained Warring as Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president while appointing former Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi as campaign committee chairman and Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa (Gurdaspur MP and former deputy CM) as core committee chairman. This triggered open dissent.
Key earlier developments included:A July 3 meeting of dozens of leaders at Channi’s Morinda residence, seen as a show of strength demanding leadership change.A July 6 Mohali meeting where senior leaders including Randhawa, Channi, Pargat Singh and others closed ranks against Warring’s continuation and discussed boycotting his programmes.
Meetings with AICC Punjab in-charge Bhupesh Baghel, during which dissenters reiterated demands for Warring’s ouster; Warring was often absent from those sessions.Warring has repeatedly downplayed the differences as normal family-like discussions within the party, insisted no senior leaders had directly spoken against him, and stressed the need for unity to return Congress to power in Punjab. He has ruled himself out of the chief ministerial race, saying the high command (including Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge) would decide.
More recently, on July 22–24, 2026, senior leaders including Warring, Channi, Randhawa, and Partap Singh Bajwa (Leader of the Opposition) attended strategy meetings in New Delhi chaired by Baghel. They publicly projected unity, with statements that the party was “fully united,” not divided into factions, and would work collectively for the 2027 polls (including possible early campaign outreach such as a bus yatra or rallies).
The July 26 reports of further meetings excluding Warring suggest underlying tensions may persist despite the public show of unity. Mainstream coverage of the absolute latest gatherings is still limited given their recency, but the pattern fits the ongoing high-command efforts to manage factionalism while retaining the current organisational structure for electoral preparations.
Senior leaders in the Punjab Congress unit continue to signal dissatisfaction with PCC president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, according to a July 26 post by the account Corridors of Punjab that highlighted another meeting held without him and claimed he has lost the confidence of a large section of the party’s leaders, workers and cadre.