Speculations rife over Sidhu’s showbiz return
After five years, former head of state Congress Navjot Singh Sidhu is back to the entertainment business with ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’.
Sidhu himself has shared a video clipping on his official social media page, captioned as ‘The Home Run” with the sub-title ‘Sidhu ji is back’, giving reasons to speculate on his return to the entertainment show while keeping politics on the backburner, yet it does not appear to be so.
In the upcoming episode, Sidhu was made to sit on film actor Archana Puran Singh’s chair giving an impression of his ‘comeback’ in his old role in the show. Archana Puran Singh was also seen complaining to Kapil Sharma about Sidhu occupying her chair.
The prank only broke up when Sidhu’s wife and cricketer Harbhajan Singh and his wife Geeta Basra too appeared on the camera to make believe that they were the guests for that particular episode
Moreover, post 2022 Assembly polls, after Sidhu lost against AAP’s Jeevanjot Kaur, Sidhu had shifted focus more to his home town and former CM Capt Amarinder Singh’s constituency Patiala, but played a negligible role in party activities since then.
Coming out of jail after serving a 10-month sentence in an old road rage case, three-time Lok Sabha MP and one-time Rajya Sabha MP, Navjot Singh Sidhu had made a comeback to cricket commentary after around a decade during the 2014 IPL tournament. Despite being in the list of star campaigners, he didn’t campaign for the party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Meanwhile, the Congress high command too changed its leadership in Amritsar East constituency which was originally represented by him. He was replaced with former Congress MP from Khadoor Sahib Jasbir Singh Dimpa as the halqa in-charge.
Nonetheless, Sidhu, famous for his hilarious one-liners and jokes, was a permanent guest on ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’ between 2016-2019 till a controversy erupted when he was interpreted to be supporting Pakistan, in his response to the 2019 Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 personnel of the Border Security Force (BSF). Apparently, he was made to exit the Season-2 of the show and replaced by Archana Puran Singh.
