The Congress has only one face in Punjab and that is Rahul Gandhi, AICC general secretary in-charge of the state Bhupesh Baghel said on Monday amid an infighting over the party’s state leadership barely months before the assembly polls.”There are no ifs and buts in the minds of the people of Punjab. Just as they did in the Lok Sabha elections, the voters of Punjab are placing their trust in Rahul Gandhi for the assembly elections,” Baghel said in an X post in Hindi.”The Congress Party has only one face in Punjab, and that is Shri Rahul Gandhi Ji,” he added.Baghel’s remarks indicate that the Congress may not declare a chief ministerial candidate ahead of the 2027 assembly elections and fight the polls under the overall leadership of Rahul Gandhi. If that happens, it will be a departure from the past, when the Congress had fought the polls with a chief minister face from among the state leadership.In 2017, the Congress had declared Captain Amarinder Singh as its chief ministerial face and secured a landslide win. Amarinder, who is now with the BJP, had also headed the Congress government from 2002-07.Months before the 2022 Punjab polls, the Congress replaced Amarinder with Charanjit Channi. In the election, the Congress won 18 out of the 117 assembly seats.Over several weeks, the Punjab Congress has been witnessing turmoil over the state party leadership.The issue seems to be far from over, with many leaders on Saturday pushing to replace Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring with Jalandhar MP and former chief minister Charanjit Channi, even though Baghel had claimed that no one had an objection to the party high command’s decision to give the incumbent another term.On July 1, the Congress announced that Warring would continue as the Punjab unit president and appointed Channi as chairperson of the campaign committee.