Punjab cabinet meeting cancelled following Capt Amarinder''s illness

Rajmeet Singh
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, December 10

The Punjab cabinet meeting on Monday has been cancelled because of CM Capt Amarinder Singh’s ill-health. The meeting has been postponed to Tuesday afternoon.

Amarinder also skipped the Navjivan function at Mohali near here on Monday. A spokesman of the Chief Minister’s office said he was advised rest for 48 hours.

Amarinder had undergone routine tests at the PGI on Sunday as a follow-up on the viral illness he had suffered last week.

Doctors had said that all tests were found okay and the Chief Minister was suffering from slight weakness as a result of the earlier bout of viral fever.

Meanwhile, Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday had said that he would not attend the cabinet meeting on Monday as he had been advised by the doctor not to speak till his next visit to Apollo Hospital in New Delhi on December 11.

Showing his recently penned poem on relations with Pakistan while basking in the winter sun at his official residence here, Sidhu said, “My vocal cords are damaged and need rest and treatment to recuperate.”