Projecting a united front ahead of the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections, senior Congress leader KC Venugopal on Monday asserted that the party was confident of returning to power, announcing that it would kick off its campaign with a major rally by Rahul Gandhi in Sangrur on November 4.

“ Hum ladenge aur jeetenge (we will fight and win),” Venugopal, the AICC general secretary (organisation), said after holding a daylong series of meetings with Punjab Congress leaders at the party’s state headquarters here. Flanked by senior leaders, he said the consultations had provided vital inputs from elected representatives, former legislators, MPs, district Congress committee presidents and other functionaries.

“I am very much confident that Congress is going to form the government in Punjab in February 2027,” he said.

Venugopal said the party had discussed its political and organisational strategy with the party’s Punjab unit president, the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader, former state presidents, secretaries…