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Many in Punjab Congress pitch for Channi to be the CM face 

There is a growing clamor within the Punjab Congress over the need to declare a chief ministerial candidate for next month's assembly polls, with many senior leaders throwing their weight behind Charanjit Singh Channi, the state's first chief minister from the scheduled caste community.

While the Congress high command has so far maintained that the party will fight the February 20 elections to the 117-member assembly under a "collective leadership".