Chandigarh, June 24 -- The aftermath of Ludhiana West bypoll defeat has plunged the Punjab Congress into a fresh bout of internal discord, with senior leader and party candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu resigning as working president of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) and publicly hinting at deep-rooted factional fissures. The Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Sanjeev Arora won the seat by a margin of 10,637 votes, but it is the Congress party's internal unraveling that has drawn greater attention in political circles.
As soon as the results were declared, a social media post allegedly shared by Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring began circulating, showing a "victory" hand symbol, even though the party had lost. While the...