Sidhu says his forum open for allies to break Badal, Amarinder nexus

CHANDIGARH: Navjot Singh Sidhu has hit a new stroke, a reverse sweep at that! Ending his latest silence over his political future, the former BJP MP declared that

CHANDIGARH: Navjot Singh Sidhu has hit a new stroke, a reverse sweep at that! Ending his latest silence over his political future, the former BJP MP declared that the forum ‘Awaaz-e-Punjab’ that he had launched earlier this month will not be a political party. And it’s open to allying with anyone to break the “Badal-Amarinder nexus”.

HT Image

While this rules out any alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) of chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and the Congress led by its state unit chief Capt Amarinder Singh, Sidhu’s wife and namesake, sitting BJP MLA Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu also ruled out any truck with the BJP.

The former cricketer, who recently resigned from the BJP, issued a statement that read, “We will not play spoilsport .... We shall not confuse the people of Punjab but give them clarity to vote in Punjab’s interest. We will not divide the anti-incumbency vote bank which could benefit the corroborative and collusive Badal-Amarinder nexus which has plundered Punjab in the last 15 years. This will defeat our purpose of bringing a change for the betterment of Punjab.”