Chandigarh: Even as the Punjab Congress is treading cautiously as far as former PPCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu’s political role is concerned, the party high command is planning to engage its firebrand leader against the BJP in the Karnataka Assembly elections.
Soon after his release from the Patiala jail on Saturday, the cricketer-turned-politician targeted the BJP and AAP for allegedly playing a friendly match in defaming Punjabis and hatching a conspiracy to impose the President’s rule in the state.
Sidhu is expected to meet Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka in Delhi in a few days. An emissary of the party leadership is learnt to have convinced Sidhu in seeing a common factor behind the disqualification of Rahul as MP and his spending 10 months in jail.
In January this year, the party had sent an invitation for Bharat Jodo Yatra’s Punjab leg to his wife, who had joined Rahul in the absence of her husband. In state politics, the party leadership is working on bringing Sidhu and other state leaders on same page ahead of the Jalandhar LS by-election.