Congress leader and former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi stoked a massive controversy by openly supporting Amritpal Singh, who is lodged in Assam's Dibrugarh district under the National Security Act (NSA). Speaking in Lok Sabha, Channi said, “20 lakh Indians have chosen Amritpal in power and the Centre is curbing his freedom of speech by putting him behind bars under NSA... This too is an emergency”. The Former Punjab CM made the statement referring to Amritpal's win in the recently concluded Lok Sabha Elections. For the unversed, Amritpal Singh, who contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as an independent, had secured a victory in the Khadoor Sahib constituency. He defeated the Congress candidate, Kulbir Singh Zira, with a significant margin of 197,120 votes.
