“He can go to any extent to maintain the relationship and the very next moment bites himself at the slightest provocation. Temperamental and temperamental,” sums up a Punjab-based journalist who called himself a cricketer-turned-politician. Tracked them for years before closing.
This perhaps describes the 57-year-old, who now holds the reins of the Punjab Congress, which has been increasingly rife with differences over the past few months. Barely four years after joining the Congress party, Navjot Singh Sidhu is now heading the state unit, marking a generational shift in the Congress’ state politics, which has so far seen Capt Amarinder Singh firmly entrenched.
The former cabinet minister’s Twitter bio ‘Master of All Trades, Jack of None’ perhaps indicates his political ambitions and ability to fight adversity. After being tagged as an ‘outsider’, he joined the Congress party in 2017 after his differences with senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley left the BJP.
From praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi to defaming him, from glorifying Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh to criticizing him on social media, Sidhu has left no stone unturned to nurture his political interests.
His one-liners known as Sidhuvaad have been a hit not only in cricket, politics, entertainment but also in whatever party he chose to contest. His oratory is something that every party has decided to use to their advantage.
After a decade-long stint in the BJP, which he said was due to his respect for former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, his first act of rebellion came in 2014 when he was denied a ticket from Amritsar and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had decided to contest the elections. Instead. However as a conciliation action, the BJP nominated him to the Rajya Sabha. But he soon resigned.
And like his flamboyant batting that earned him the nickname ‘Sixer Sidhu’, people were waiting for his next political shot in Punjab. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) tried to produce him in the court but the deal could not be done. Sidhu later formed the Awaaz-e-Punjab organization without any political success.
Realizing that he needed only a few years before the 2017 Punjab Assembly elections, Sidhu met Priyanka Gandhi and joined the Congress, describing himself as a born Congressman. His father had worked with Jawaharlal Nehru and even Punjab CM Amarinder Singh’s mother Mehtab Kaur.
Though he hails from an influential Jat Sikh family, he has also picked up elements of Hinduism. He believes in the power of Lord Shiva. Hence, in the center of his house in Amritsar, there is a large Shivling made of stone, gifted to him by a friend from Iran. He often goes to temples. The rings and religious threads in his hand cannot be missed as he consults many religious preachers of Hinduism.
As someone who always believed in the last laugh, he joined the Punjab cabinet in 2017 and was later stripped of his powers and allotted another department. Not wanting to accept what was given to him, Sidhu decided to go full throttle against his government taking on the Chief Minister of Punjab on several issues, until he approached the high command and ensured the post of PPCC chief, He had a post. Firing for.
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