However, he surprised everyone when his wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu, who is a member of the current Punjab Assembly, announced on her Facebook page that her husband would start a new party with Indian hockey stalwart Pargat Singh. But Mr Gandhi, who was suspended in June for supporting party rebels Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, accused Mr Kejriwal of trying to bring outsiders to run Punjab.
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AAP’s Punjab co-incharge and Delhi MLA Jarnail Singh also said that by forming the new party, the cricketer-turned-politician has finally accepted that he harbours chief ministerial ambitions.
Taking a sharp jibe on BJP ally SAD in Punjab, Sidhu mentioned, “One good person is better than a hundred bad people”. Political leaders should be of character and integrity, we don’t need show pieces.
On the Akalis, Sidhu claimed that Master Tara Singh’s party had been reduced to a private enterprise.
Sidhu had been upset with the BJP since 2014, when his parliamentary constituency of Amritsar was assigned to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who lost the election.
Thereafter his relations with the BJP soured, leading eventually to his recent exit.
Earlier in the day, the AAP supremo escaped unhurt when the SUV in which he was travelling rammed into the escort auto on Jalandhar-Amritsar road.
Stressing that only those political parties would survive which have a glorious past to serve the mankind with devotion and commitment, Badal said Shiromani Akali Dal would cherish the aspiration of people.
Sidhu while making some revelations admitted, he was perturbed as Kejriwal asked him not to contest polls and “instead wanted my wife to fight”.
“I will be here (in Punjab) only and we have dug the “khunta” (pole)”.
“Subsequent to the high court judgment on the administrative controversy between the Lt. Governor (Najeeb Jung) and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, this judgment will be seen as a confirmation of the charges of anarchic behaviour by Kejriwal”, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Delhi unit President Satish Upadhyay told reporters here.
Sidhu had resigned from the Rajya Sabha last month. Which used to send soldiers to the army, whose sons won Param Veer Chakras?
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The decisions included paying near Rs 5000 crore annually as subsidy to Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) on account of free power to the farm sector and initiating a scheme to provide interest free loans up to Rs 50,000. “Today the streets are filled with drug addicts”.
