CHANNI PUTS OUT A STEADYING HAND
urinder Singh, a resident of Khauli village in Amritsar, had a VVIP guest on the night of December 6—Charanjit Singh Channi. The Punjab chief minister was on a surprise visit to the village and chose to have dinner at Gurinder’s modest home. He ignored the family’s pleas to sit on the cot and planted himself on the floor for a meal of and , loaded with white butter. Earlier in the day, Channi had attended a political event in Amritsar city’s Jora Phatak area, where he broke his security cordon to lend an ear to protesting lower-rung government health workers. On November 28, he had taken children on an impromptu helicopter ride while visiting his home in Morinda in
