SIDHU IN HIS ELEMENT

Charged up after getting legal go-ahead for appearing on a TV show, Punjab local bodies and tourism minister Navjot Singh Sidhu kept chatting almost throughout the two-hour-long oath-taking ceremony. He started with a long talk with the CM. When the two finished, Jalandhar Cantt MLA Pargat Singh came to his seat for a chat. Later, the cricketerturned-politician turned to Raj Kumar Verka and two other party colleagues sitting behind him. Whenever the MLAs greeted him while going to the speaker’s podium or returning after taking oath, Sidhu warmly shook hands with them or patted their backs.