“What Stands Compromised…”: Congress Leader On Navjot Sidhu’s Move

Chandigarh:

A former Punjab Congress chief has criticised his occasion colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu over “breach of belief”, hours after Mr Sidhu resigned as Punjab Congress chief barely two months into the job.

Sunil Jakhar, who was Punjab Congress chief earlier than Mr Sidhu, indicted his colleague of nothing short of outright betrayal by quitting from the submit regardless of the management deciding to belief him at a chaotic time for the occasion’s Punjab unit.

“It is simply not cricket! What stands compromised on this whole ‘episode’ is the religion reposed within the (outgoing?) PCC President by the Congress management. No quantity of grandstanding can justify this breach of belief putting his benefactors in a peculiar predicament,” Mr Jakhar tweeted, referring to Pradesh Congress Committee or PCC, a proper time period the occasion makes use of for its state items.

It is simply not cricket ! What stands compromised on this whole ‘episode’ is the religion reposed within the (outgoing ?) PCC President by the Congress Management. No quantity of grand standing can justify this breach of belief putting his benefactors in a peculiar predicament.

— Sunil Jakhar (@sunilkjakhar) September 28, 2021

Mr Sidhu was among the many nation’s celebrated cricketers earlier than he introduced his retirement in 1999. A match fixing scandal in 2000 involving former cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin had put a stain on a era of cricketers to which Mr Sidhu belonged. Mr Sidhu has typically mentioned match-fixing is a treason and fixers must be punished harshly.

The allusion to cricket within the tweet by Mr Jakhar was seen as a swipe on the controversies that brushed previous Mr Sidhu, who later joined politics in 2004, when he contested the Lok Sabha election on a BJP ticket and received from Amritsar.

Mr Sidhu’s rival and chief critic Captain Amarinder Singh made an excellent stronger criticism of his youthful colleague at present. “I told you so… he’s not a steady man and never match for the border state of Punjab,” tweeted Mr Singh, whose exit as Chief Minister was ascribed to Mr Sidhu.

Mr Sidhu joined Congress forward of the meeting election in Punjab in 2017. The Congress received the state election then and Mr Singh turned the Chief Minister, whereas Mr Sidhu was made Punjab’s Tourism and Native Our bodies Minister.

In 2019, Mr Sidhu accused Mr Singh of singling him out for the Congress’s poor efficiency within the Lok Sabha election. Although the Congress received eight out of 13 parliamentary seats in Punjab, it received solely 52 general. Mr Singh hit again at his youthful colleague, saying he wished to switch him as Chief Minister.

In July this 12 months, after a lot confrontation between Mr Sidhu and Mr Singh, the Congress appointed the previous cricketer as Punjab Congress chief. Two months later, Mr Singh resigned as Chief Minister and Charanjit Singh Channi took excessive submit.

Mr Sidhu’s missed alternative of turning into Chief Minister, one thing that he was seen to be angling for since 2017 when he joined Congress, may very well be an element for his resentment, political analysts say.