To a query on Sidhu’s frequent visits to Patiala, CM Amarinder Singh stated if he desires to contest from Patiala, he is welcome.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday slammed Navjot Singh Sidhu for repeatedly attacking him and his authorities, calling the Congress chief’s outbursts “total indiscipline” and suggesting that he may be leaving for the AAP.
The Punjab CM additionally dared the ex-Punjab minister and Amritsar MLA to contest Assembly polls against him from Patiala.
“He (Sidhu) is speaking every day. Has any day passed when he did not speak,” Amamrinder Singh stated, including that Sidhu has no agenda however to assault them.
He doesn’t know wherein get together he is, the CM stated breaking his silence over Sidhu’s constant assaults against the Congress authorities.
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“If he is in the Congress Party, then it is total indiscipline. Why should he utter such things? May be he is trying to go with the AAP…BJP will not take him back. The same thing is with the Akali Dal… where will he go? Either he will stay with us or switch sides,” stated the Punjab CM in an interview to a TV channel.
The chief minister’s feedback have come within the wake of the Amritsar MLA criticising him and his authorities over circumstances associated to the desecration of faith texts and subsequent firing incidents at folks protesting against it in Punjab’s Faridkot in 2015.
The Congress MLA has been vital of his own authorities after the Punjab and Haryana High Court quashed a probe report into the Kotkapura firing case earlier this month.
He had attacked Amarinder Singh, accusing him of evading duty within the case.
To a query on Sidhu’s frequent visits to Patiala, the CM stated if he desires to contest from Patiala, he is welcome.
The ex-minister will lose his safety deposits like former Army chief J J Singh, who contested against him within the 2017 Assembly polls, the chief minister stated.
“That is what I am saying he should make it clear where he wants to go.If he is attacking his own chief minister, it means he is preparing to go,” he stated.
“If he wanted to go then he should go. Nobody listens to him anymore.Do whatever he wants to do. It is a free country,” he stated.
On media studies suggesting Sidhu needed to be the deputy chief minister or the Punjab Congress chief, the CM stated Sunil Jakhar is doing an excellent job because the state get together president.
He questioned how may an individual who joined the get together simply 4 years in the past be made the state unit chief.
Why ought to Sidhu be made the deputy chief minister, stated Singh whereas reasoning that every one Cabinet ministers had been senior to him.
He, nevertheless, stated the choice on giving any place to Sidhu is to be taken by the get together excessive command.
He stated if the get together sought his opinion, he would say the identical factor. “Just because you are a speaker and that does not mean you have a right to overtake seniors,” stated Singh.
Reacting to the CM’s remarks, Sidhu in a tweet stated, “Efforts to derail Punjab’s conscience will fail”.
“My Soul is Punjab and Punjab’s Soul is Guru Granth Sahib Ji.Our fight is for Justice & punishing the guilty, an assembly seat is not even worth discussion in the same breathe !!,” he stated.
The pressure between Amarinder Singh and Sidhu had come out within the open in May 2019 when the CM blamed the previous cricketer for the “inept handling” of the Local Government Department, claiming it had resulted in “poor performance” of the Congress in city areas within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Sidhu was stripped of key portfolios in a cupboard reshuffle, after which he resigned from the state cupboard.
Navjot Singh Sidhu and Amarinder Singh had final month met over tea and at the moment, the CM had expressed confidence that Sidhu would be again in his Cabinet.
The Congress central management had been making an attempt to rehabilitate Sidhu.
AICC common secretary in-charge of Punjab affairs Harish Rawat had additionally been pushing for an vital place for Sidhu.
