In a news conference at his residence, Sidhu also slammed the Delhi chief minister for making “false” promises with the people of Punjab. He claimed Kejriwal had no roadmap for Punjab and he wanted to run the state with remote control from Delhi.
Sources said Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi can contest elections from two seats. Adampur and Chamkor Sahib could be the two seats from where Channi is likely to contest.
A couple of days ago, Navjot Singh Sidhu in a presser while responding to a media query asked, "who said the Congress high command will decide the next CM? It will be the people of the state who will choose it."
India's Number One and the most followed Super Prime Time News Show ‘Aaj Ki Baat – Rajat Sharma Ke Saath was launched just before the 2014 General Elections.
Earlier in the day, Kejriwal unveiled his party's 'Punjab Model' ahead of assembly polls and promised justice in sacrilege cases, jobs to youth, corruption-free governance.
Unveiling the first set of plans in his Punjab Model with focus on resurrection of Punjab, Sidhu, in the absence of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and his Cabinet colleagues, told the media, "Punjab Model is people's model, an effort to give a roadmap to return power to people."
The election commission announced poll dates for Punjab. Voting will take place on February in one single phase. Punjab has a total of 117 assembly seats.
Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu hit out at BJP leaders on Friday, alleging that a rant about security lapses during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the state is being made to reap political benefits in other poll-bound states and save themselves from humiliation as Modi would have had to address a gathering of 500 people when arrangements for 70,000 were made.
Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, over the issue of his security breach during his visit to the state. Sidhu said, "You not only belong BJP, but are also the PM of this country. Every child of the country knows the value of your life. You are insulting this state, its Punjabiyat by saying that your life was in danger here".
Navjot Singh Sidhu said that the BJP is resorting to bad politics of vote polarisation and using the Enforcement Directorate and other agencies for browbeating opponents to trigger defections.
Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab will go to polls early in 2022. While the first four are ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the last one has a Congress government.
The state does not generate enough revenue to be able to meet its total expenditure of Rs 1.40 lakh crore. It pays Rs 30,000 crore as interest on debt, Sidhu claimed.
The DSP condemned the Congress leader's defamatory comment stating that the politicians must not forget the sacrifices made by the security forces.
Navjot Singh Sidhu has condemned the alleged sacrilege attempts at the Golden Temple in Amritsar and at a gurdwara in Kapurthala, saying conspiracies are being hatched to disturb peace in Punjab.
In a sharp tweet, Sidhu accused the Delhi Chief Minister of colluding with the Badals of Akali Dal and also targeted him over the controversial farm laws recently scrapped by the Centre. Sidhu also accused the AAP chief of "running" the liquor mafia with former Shiromani Akali Dal MLA Deep Malhotra.
The video shared by news agency ANI shows Sidhu interacting with the media when he suddenly drops an unparliamentary word.
The order to appoint Chattopadhyaya as the officiating DGP was issued late Thursday night.
Sidhu tweeted a picture with the cricketer captioning it as, "Picture loaded with possibilities …. With Bhajji the shining star".
The former Chief Minister was reacting to reports of Punjab cops stopping PLC workers who were putting up posters in the Malwa region.
The members of the all-important Punjab Pradesh Election Committee include chief minister and CLP leader Charanjit Singh Channi, Ambika Soni, chairperson of the coordination committee, Sunil Jakhar, chairman of the campaign committee, and Pratap Singh Bajwa, chairman of the manifesto committee.
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