Charanjit Singh Channi skips Rahul Gandhi Lok Sabha speech, attends party rally in Faridkot instead

Jalandhar MP Charanjit Singh Channi. (File Photo) 4 min readChandigarhJul 30, 2026 07:15 AM IST First published on: Jul 30, 2026 at 07:15 AM IST Jalandhar MP Charanjit Singh Channi chose to skip Rahul Gandhi’s speech in Lok Sabha on Wednesday and instead attended a rally in Faridkot. Out of the seven Congress MPs from Punjab, Channi was the only one absent when Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok sabha, made his speech in Parliament attacking the BJP over the recent police action against the student protesters at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.Congress sources informed that though there was no whip to attend Gandhi’s speech, Amritsar MP Gurjit Singh Aujla, who is the head of the Congress parliamentary group, sent a WhatsApp message to all MPs to be present in the House from 12 pm onwar