Sidhu may become the Chief Ministerial candidate for AAP in the upcoming Punjab assembly elections.
Sidhu may become the Chief Ministerial candidate for AAP in the upcoming Punjab assembly elections.
Cricketer-turned-BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu, who was recently nominated from the Rajya Sabha, resigned on Monday.
According to reports, Sidhu is set to join the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and become the party’s candidate for Chief Minister for the Punjab elections due next year. The Arvind Kejriwal-led party is preparing him to lead the campaign in the state elections.
Sidhu’s wife Navjot Kaur, a Parliamentary Secretary in the Punjab SAD-BJP government, may also resign from her post. She had announced her resignation on Facebook earlier this year but later changed her mind.
Navjot Sidhu has been upset with the BJP ever since the saffron party denied him the ticket from Amritsar for Lok Sabha polls in 2014. Instead, the party chose Arun Jaitley, who lost to Congress leader Amarinder Singh. Sidhu had represented the Amritsar constituency for 10 years previously.
The monsoon session of Parliament commenced on Monday with several issues including the GST bill on the agenda. The Opposition however grilled the government on the recent Kashmir violence, saying that it had failed to distinguish between terrorists and civilians, thus losing the trust of people in the Valley.
Addressing the media outside Parliament at the start of the Monsoon session, the Prime Minister said that based on the talks with all parties over the last few days, the prevailing mood was to take -"very good decisions so that the country can move ahead on the path of development with greater speed-".
