Navjot Sidhu quit as Congress high command crushed his CM ambitions: BJP

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 28

State BJP president Ashwani Sharma today said Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned from the post of PCC president as his political ambitions had been scuttled by the party high command, though he pretended to take a high moral ground.

He said Sidhu lacked maturity and was famous for being a ‘one-man comedy show’. “We are a border state we need responsible and visionary leaders, not politicians who have only one agenda of self-propagation,” said Sharma.

He said the Congress after unceremoniously removing Capt Amarinder Singh appointed Charanjit Singh Channi as CM and Sidhu could not reconcile to the move. “Sidhu wanted to puppet the high command and he had to resign in desperation when he understood that the party will not elevate him to the post of Chief Minister if it came to power in the next Assembly elections,” the state BJP chief said.

State going to dogs: Chugh

BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh on Tuesday said the state Congress was a mess as a result of which the government had been paralysed for more than two months. On PCC chief Navjot Sidhu’s resignation, Chugh said the state was paying a heavy price for the chaos. “While the ministers have not attended their offices for the past two months, the state has gone to dogs,” he said.