The meeting was convened at the residence of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, where former party chief Rahul Gandhi and AICC general secretary KC Venugopal were present. A meeting of the Congress’ central leadership with party’s Punjab unit to discuss the strategy ahead of 2027 Assembly elections in the border state saw stormy scenes with verbal duels, charges and counter charges taking place. The meeting was convened at the residence of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, where former party chief Rahul Gandhi and AICC general secretary K C Venugopal were present. The meeting took place in the backdrop of the urban local body poll results in Punjab where Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won 954 of the total 1,977 wards, and the Congress came in a distant second by winning 393 wards. The results deepened the faultlines within the Congress and gave ammunition to former chief minister and Jalandhar MP Charanjit Singh Channi.…