Navjot Sidhu a hero and will remain so, says wife Navjot Kaur

Chandigarh, February 3

With the Congress likely to announce its CM face for the Punjab Assembly polls on February 6, state party president Navjot Singh Sidhu’s wife on Thursday said it doesn’t matter who becomes the CM, her husband will remain a hero.

“Whoever the CM may be, it does not matter,” Navjot Kaur Sidhu said.

“Navjot Singh Sidhu is a hero and he will remain a hero,” she said while talking to reporters in Amritsar.

“Whoever is the CM, he should listen to his ministers, sign ministers’ files and let the ministers do their work. Had Amarinder Singh done this, nobody would have any problem with any CM,” she said.

The remarks of Sidhu’s wife came ahead of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s February 6 visit to Ludhiana, where he is likely to announce the chief ministerial face of the party for the February 20 Punjab Assembly polls.

Gandhi will address a virtual rally in Ludhiana on February 6.

During his last visit on January 27 to Punjab in Jalandhar, Gandhi had announced that the Congress will go into the Punjab Assembly elections with a CM face and the decision on it will be taken soon after consulting party workers.

Besides taking response from party leaders and workers, the Congress is also seeking opinion of the public on the CM face through an automated call system.

Over the past several weeks, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu have, directly or indirectly, made a case for themselves to be declared as the party’s chief ministerial candidate.

Rahul Gandhi while addressing a virtual rally in Jalandhar last week had said that Channi and Sidhu have assured him that whosoever is chosen as the CM face, the other will support him.