Chandigarh: A Punjab minister on Saturday sought Navjot Singh Sidhu’s resignation over his jibe at Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, even as the cricketer-turned-politician backtracked on his claim that Congress president Rahul Gandhi had sent him to Pakistan for the Kartarpur corridor event.
On his election campaign trip to Hyderabad, Sidhu had said Friday that he attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the Kartarpur corridor as Gandhi had asked him to go. In an apparent snub to Amarinder Singh, a former Army captain, Sidhu told reporters there that he considered Gandhi his captain
. “If he does not consider Capt Amarinder as his captain then he should resign on moral grounds from the cabinet and do whatever work is assigned to him by Rahul Gandhi,” Punjab cabinet minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa said. Sidhu’s visit to the Kartarpur gurdwara had riled Amarinder Singh, who earlier said he tried to dissuade the state’s local bodies minister following a grenade attack in Amritsar that left three people dead.
Meanwhile, Sidhu tweeted Saturday, “Rahul Gandhi didn’t ask me to go, I went on (Pakistan Prime Minister) Imran Khan’s personal invite.” Bajwa, who is the state’s rural development and panchayat minister, said Amarinder Singh is “our captain in Punjab, he is our leader”.
“He will have to accept Captain sahib as his leader in Punjab,” Bajwa said. “My advice to the younger brother is to speak less and concentrate on work. You need to be consistent and you should make it your habit,” Bajwa said. (PTI)
