SIDHU TO JOIN AAP ON I-DAY

MANN GETS 2 DAYS TO CHANGE REPLY

Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker Navjot Singh Sidhu is likely to join the Aam Aadmi Party on August 14 and plunge into the campaign for the Punjab assembly elections from the next day, sources in the party have said.

The cricketer-politician who stunned his party on July 19 by suddenly resigning from the Rajya Sabha to which he had been nominated just two months ago, will be one of the AAP’s chief campaigners in Punjab. He will not be named its chief ministerial candidate, a member of the party’s top body, the Political Affairs Committee (PAC) told HT.

For days after he quit the Rajya Sabha, Sidhu remained incommunicado. On the day of his resignation, his wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu – who is a BJP MLA in Punjab and Chief Parliamentary Secretary – said it implied he had quit the party. When Sidhu finally surfaced and made a brief statement to the media on July 25, he did not say he had quit the BJP nor clarify on where he was headed.

“Rashtra dharma (duty towards the nation) is the most superior. How can Navjot Singh Sidhu stay away from his motherland,” Sidhu said in his brief appearance before the media in

Rashtra dharma (duty towards the nation) is the most superior . ... If it comes to choosing between my family, my party and Punjab, I will choose Punjab a hundred times NAVJOT SINGH SIDHU, in an earlier media appearance

New Delhi, where he did not field questions. “No party in this world is above or greater than Punjab ... If it comes to choosing between my family, my party and Punjab, I will choose Punjab a hundred times.”