Days after meeting the AICC panel and being offered somehigh-powered positions, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu has onceagain turned down the offers.
According to the reports, Sidhu was offered the positionof Deputy Chief Minister in lieu to join the Punjab Congress ahead of AssemblyElections 2022. However, on Tuesday all the speculations have come to an endafter sources believe that Sidhu is not ready to work under the CM Capt AmarinderSingh.
It has also been learnt from the sources that Sidhu hasalso informed the three-member panel, constituted to resolve the party’s internalfeud, that if he would accept the deputyCM post, “he will not be comfortable.”
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In his meeting with the three-member panel, Sidhu hasalso asserted that the Chief Minister is not accessible. Most of the CongressMLAs, party leaders, and workers are being sidelined by the CM, he added.
Reiterating here, Navjot Sidhu has always targetedShiromani Akali Dal (SAD) prominent leader and he believes that they areinfluencing the Punjab government.
However, Sidhu’s resentment has once again made it clear thatthe matter is complicated and it would take a little more time for the panel toresolve the party’s internal conflict ahead of Assembly elections.
Meanwhile, the Congress High-Command is likely to take adecision on the recommendations of the three-member panel this week.