Congress doors open to all, says Asha Kumari

Nobody knows where Navjot Singh Sidhu will go after now quitting the Rajya Sabha but one door is open.

Nobody knows where Navjot Singh Sidhu will go after now quitting the Rajya Sabha but one door is open.

Punjab affairs in-charge of Congress Asha Kumari at Golden Temple in Amritsar on Friday. (Sameer Sehgal/HT Photo)

Asked if her party would want the ex-MP, Congress’ Punjab affairs in-charge Asha Kumari said on Friday here that: “He is still to quit the BJP and we don’t know what he is going to do next. The Congress doors are open to all, certainly.”

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She was with reporters after paying obeisance at the Golden Temple to seek an auspicious start to the Congress district-level campaign. “After nine years unspectacular years, the ruling Akali-BJP combine is ready to be voted out,” she said. “Let (deputy chief minister) Sukhbir Singh Badal disagree. Come elections and the people of Punjab will show him.”

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There was hardly any governance in Punjab in these nine years but a lot of drug menace, farmers’ issues, and unemployment, she says, giving a “minus score” to the government.