Farmers Movement Archive

Sidhu missing in Cong star campaigners’ list for Bihar

Chandigarh: Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu has not been included in the list of 30 star campaigners of Congress released on Saturday. From Punjab, chief minister Amarinder Singh is the only one who made it to the list. Sidhu, who had campaigned extensively for the party in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, including in Bihar, had shared the stage with Rahul Gandhi in Moga last week as part of the party’s tractor rally against the farm laws. Sidhu’s exclusion from the list fuelled speculations that all is still not well between him and the party leadership. There is still no certainty over the way the party plans to rehabilitate Sidhu even though there has been talk of him being accommodated as the state president and at a key position in the state government. However, Amarinder had recently clarified that if he wants, Sidhu can return to the state cabinet as the power minister. Earlier, after a public spat with Amarinder, Sidhu, who was included in the list of star campaigners for Delhi assembly elections in January, went missing from action.

The Times of India

2020-10-11

Chandigarh