The Aam Aadmi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party in Punjab on Sunday demanded a proof from the Congress after get together chief Navjot Singh Sidhu’s spouse Navjot Kaur Sidhu claimed that an individual who provides “a suitcase of Rs 500 crore” turns into the chief minister, The Hindu reported.
The former Punjab Congress chief’s spouse made the comment on Saturday whereas talking to reporters in Chandigarh after assembly Governor Gulab Chand Kataria, The Indian Express reported.
She mentioned that her husband was “strongly hooked up” to the Congress, including that the cricketer-turned-politician would return to lively politics if the get together proclaims him because the chief ministerial face.
Punjab is predicted to go for Assembly elections in 2027.
“But with a lot infighting, I don’t really feel that they are going to let Navjot Sidhu be promoted as there are already 5 CMs faces, and they’re hell bent on defeating the Congress,” The Indian Express quoted the previous MLA as saying. “If they [high command] perceive this, then it’s a completely different matter.”
She added: “We at all times communicate for Punjab, however we do not need Rs 500 crore to safe the chief ministerial chair.”
When requested whether or not any individual had demanded cash from them, she mentioned that no person had completed so however added that the “one who provides a suitcase of Rs 500 crore, he turns into the CM”, The Indian Express reported.
Aam Aadmi Party chief Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal mentioned that Navjot Kaur Sidhu “had spoken the reality”, including that her statements clearly confirmed that the Congress was the “most corrupt get together” within the nation.
“In a celebration the place, even to change into a candidate, neglect successful, one should allegedly pay Rs 500 crore, you possibly can think about the state of that get together,” The Indian Express quoted him as saying. “In Punjab, 5 folks [in Congress] are roaming round claiming to be the chief minister.”
This confirmed how divided and weak the state’s Opposition get together was, he added.
“With so many ‘chief ministers’ strolling round, the Congress has suffered immense harm,” the Aam Aadmi Party chief mentioned. “The get together is completed.”
Baltej Pannu, the Aam Aadmi Party’s Punjab normal secretary, mentioned that Navjot Kaur Sidhu’s comment “uncovered the ugly reality of how the Congress features, how management is set, and the way Punjab’s pursuits are sidelined for private ambitions and financial offers”, The Hindu reported.
Describing her remarks as “deeply disturbing”, Pannu added that the folks of Punjab deserved a solution from the Congress.
BJP chief Tarun Chugh mentioned that Navjot Kaur Sidhu had “uncovered the politics of ‘cash luggage’ within the Congress by publicly stating that the chief minister’s chair in Punjab prices Rs 500 crore, which her husband, Navjot Singh Sidhu, couldn’t pay”, The Hindu reported.
He added that when the spouse of a senior Congress chief herself admitted that the chief minister’s place could possibly be “bought” in a deal, it demonstrated a whole ethical collapse within the get together.
This confirmed that the get together’s inner functioning had lowered Punjab’s politics to a “money-driven public sale system as a substitute of a democratic management course of”, he added.
Congress MP Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa mentioned it appeared that the Sidhu household had joined the get together for some mission and now they believed that their mission was full, The Indian Express reported.
The folks of Punjab couldn’t perceive the Sidhu household’s actions, the Gurdaspur MP mentioned.
“Will they [Sidhu family] inform us: once they took the Punjab Congress presidency, a place equal to the chief minister’s stature, whose suitcase did they hand over, and for a way a lot?” the newspaper quoted Randhawa as saying.
“I imagine if somebody goes again and reads this household’s outdated interviews and newspaper statements, it is going to be crystal clear whether or not they got here to save lots of the Congress or to utterly destroy it,” the previous deputy chief minister was quoted as saying.
He added: “It would have been higher if he had made such statements whereas sitting on one other department [another party], folks may have loved the drama much more. But now, whereas leaving, he’s stabbing the get together within the again.”
Before Navjot Singh Sidhu himself “returns dwelling [to the BJP]”, the Congress excessive command ought to “fortunately bid him farewell and present him the door”, Randhawa added.
Navjot Singh Sidhu started his political profession in 2004 with the BJP however resigned from the get together in 2016. He joined the Congress a 12 months later.
In 2022, he resigned because the Punjab Congress chief after the get together misplaced the Assembly polls to AAP. He had misplaced the Amritsar East seat to AAP’s Jeevan Jyot Kaur.
After her feedback triggered a political row, Navjot Kaur Sidhu on Sunday mentioned she was “shocked to see the twist given to a straight remark saying that our Congress get together has by no means demanded something from us”.
She added: “On being requested about Navjot [Singh Sindhu] turning into a CM face from every other get together, I acknowledged that we have now no cash to supply for a CM publish. Listen fastidiously.”
