Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu’s spouse Navjot Kaur on Friday stated her husband ‘gifted’ the chief minister’s chair to Bhagwant Mann, claiming that Arvind Kejriwal as soon as wanted the previous cricketer to lead Punjab however he selected not to betray his social gathering.
IMAGE: Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu gestures through the wrestlers’ protest at Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi on May 1, 2023. Photograph: Ishant/ANI Photo
Her claims got here within the backdrop of a disagreement between Mann and Navjot Sidhu.
In a sequence of tweets, Kaur stated, ‘CM, Bhagwant Mann; let me immediately open out a hidden secret out of your treasure hunt. You ought to know that the very honourable chair you might be occupying has been gifted to you by your huge brother, Mr Navjot Sidhu. Your very personal senior most chief had desired Navjot to lead Punjab.’
She claimed that the Aam Aadmi Party’s nationwide convener and Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal had approached Sidhu via numerous channels to lead the state.
Punjab went to polls in February 2022 and after the AAP’s landslide win Bhagwant Mann turned the chief minister.
‘Mr Kejriwal via numerous channels approached him to lead Punjab figuring out about his ardour for our state. Just as a result of he did not need to betray his social gathering and thought that two robust headed folks would possibly conflict when it got here to technique to uplift Punjab, he gave you an opportunity,’ Kaur claimed.
She additional stated Sidhu’s solely concern is the welfare of Punjab and he has sacrificed all the pieces for it.
‘You tread on the trail of TRUTH and he shall assist you however the second you deviate he’ll goal you left and proper. Golden Punjab state is his dream and he lives it 24 hours a day,’ she stated in one other tweet.
Mann had on Sunday attacked opposition events for his or her gathering in Jalandhar in assist of the editor of a Punjabi each day who was below the vigilance scanner.
Reacting to it, Navjot Sidhu had stated, ‘Those who make democracy a vigilance system on the behest of Delhi, those that run Punjab as pawns with distant management” had been now indulging in ethical lecturing.’
Several leaders reducing throughout social gathering strains had on June 1 gathered on the workplace of Punjabi newspaper ‘Ajit’ in Jalandhar to rally behind its editor-in-chief Barjinder Singh Hamdard who’s below the vigilance bureau scanner over alleged misuse of funds within the development of Rs 315-crore Jang-E-Azadi memorial in Jalandhar.
