Navjot Kaur Sidhu resigns from BJP’s primary membership

CHANDIGARH: Navjot Kaur Sidhu, wife of cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, on Saturday resigned from the primary membership of the BJP.

Sidhu, MLA from Amritsar East constituency, sent a one-line resignation to Vijay Sampla, president of the party’s Punjab unit. A press release by the party said that her resignation was accepted.

She had for long been criticising the BJP’s majority partner, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).

Navjot Kaur’s resignation came over a month after her husband floated a new outfit, Awaaz-e-Punjab. In September, Navjot Singh Sidhu announced the formation of the front .

The three-time MP of the Bhartiya Janata Party from Amritsar had quit his Rajya Sabha membership in July and resigned from the saffron party in September this year.

His political future hangs in balance after announcing that the front will not become a political party.With assembly elections due in Punjab early next year, he is now awaiting an invite from the Congress or the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) , it is learnt.

Kaur’s resignation was expected after Sidhu left.

Sidhu’s forum is finding itself in a piquant situation vis-à-vis both the AAP and Congress. The AAP is not willing to buy Sidhu’s bait after burning its fingers last time when he held meetings with party leaders, but was not happy with the deal.

As for the Congress, Sidhu’s rider that an alliance is only possible minus Amarinder is being dubbed by party leaders as unpalatable. Amarinder said on Wednesday that Sidhu is welcome without riders.