New Delhi: Cricketer turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu’s latest assembly with Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh at his farmhouse portends at the former getting ‘adjusted’ in the ministry or given a big and authoritative put up forward of 2022 battle of the poll in the state presumably to nip in the bud any attainable rebel or the voices of dissent in the get together.
The reconciliation efforts between Sidhu and Amarinder Singh is a presumably a transfer to restore the acrimonious relations between the two, which was a end result of Chief Minister cliping Sidhu’s wings by divesting him of Urban Local Body division in 2019 and giving him the cost of the ministry for Power and New Renewable Energy.
This step had made Sidhu really feel ‘demoted’ and humiliated by state energy corridors and he not solely began distancing himself from the CM but additionally tendered his resignation to the Congress president Rahul Gandhi which additional irked Amarinder Singh. Sidhu’s rehabilitation course of was set in movement after the appointment of Parshant Kishore as his election strategist.
What place in the Captain Amarinder’s cupboard will the sulking Sidhu get in the final 12 months of his authorities is a moot query?
Will Navjot Singh Sidhu once more be given Urban Local Body ministry together with different portfolio’s and made head of a call making physique in the get together and even the president of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee or the Deputy Chief Minister will be clear in close to future however his supporters and followers need to see him again in an influential place, though Sidhu in his tenure as minister has not delivered something important. In Fact, he has largely fought for fortifying his personal place in the get together.
Even after the truce efforts made by Captain Amarinder Singh, perhaps on the recommendation of his election strategist, Sidhu reacted with a snobbish tweet which learn, “tinkae say halki rui, rui say halki mangnay wala admi, na apnay liyae manga tha , na manga hai aur na mangugna (cotton is lighter than straw, the man who asks for something is lighter than cotton, never asked anything for myself in past, nor asked now and will never ask in future).”
The efforts from CM got here even after Sidhu had been upsetting Amarinder’s authorities along with his statements on a number of events and flaunting his relations with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi.
With the leadership of Gandhi sibling being challenged by G 23 leaders of Congress has solely made Amarinder Singh stronger and weakened Sidhu’s bargaining place.
