‘SUKHBIR SIDELINED ME’

AMRITSAR: Navjot Singh Sidhu targeted Punjab deputy CM Sukhbir Badal on Thursday, accusing SAD chief of sidelining him.

In a press release, Sidhu said he and former SAD MP Ratan Singh Ajnala were sidelined so that Sukhbir’s wife Harsimrat Kaur Badal could get a berth in the Union cabinet. Sidhu was apparently responding to a Sukhbir’s statement wherein he had said, “I had cordial relations with him (Sidhu). I wonder what is their (Sidhu couple’s) problem is with the alliance.”

“I was not allowed to speak at a rally organised in memory of Shaheed Bhagat Singh. In meetings held with regard to development of Amritsar, I was not invited,” Sidhu said.

on where he was headed. He used the opportunity to say that quit because he was asked to stay away from Punjab.

AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal tweeted after Sidhu’s July 24 press conference: “Sidhu wud hv spoken against drugs, if he went to Punjab. BJP prevented him. Who was it trying to protect? (sic).”

SIDHU WILL GO INTO OBLIVION: BADAL

BARNALA: Chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has said Navjot Singh Sidhu will go into oblivion like ex-CM Surjit Singh Barnala and ex-finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal did, after they quit their parties. He was speaking during sangat darshan at Tapa near Bhadaur.