Mann dares Sidhu to get wife to resign

AAP MP Bhagwant Mann today dared BJP star campaigner Navjot Sidhu to ensure that his wife Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu, who is Chief Parliamentary Secretary in SAD-BJP government led by Parkash Singh Badal in Punjab, resigns after the Haryana polls are over. Mann, who was in Amritsar in connection with promotion of his film Police in Pollywood releasing Friday (October 10), while mentioning Sidhu’s outbursts against ruling SAD and Badals said that Sidhu should openly oppose the Badals.

Talking to reporters, Mann said Sidhu should say similar things (about SAD and Badals) in Punjab too. Mann said he appreciated Sidhu for his “backstabbing” remarks, but added that there was hardly any difference in case Sidhu spoke against Badals in Haryana and not in Punjab.

Sidhu had been missing from the Punjab scene ever since BJP had chosen to field Arun Jaitley from Amritsar instead of him.

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Mann said Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu can continue as MLA but should resign as CPS. He added that he was sure that Sidhu would openly oppose SAD and Badals in Punjab as well and make his wife resign. Mann also slammed Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal for “changing allies after every 200 km”.

He said he failed to understand Badals’ politics where he had an alliance with the BJP in Punjab and with INLD in Haryana. He added, “You go to Uttar Pradesh and he has Mulayam Singh Yadav as an ally, in Bihar Nitish Kumar and in Tamil Nadu Jayalalitha.