Navjot Sidhu’s daughter Rabia inaugurates park, creates buzz

Amritsar, October 14

Amid speculations of taking a political plunge, Rabia Sidhu, daughter of PCC president Navjot Singh Sidhu, today inaugurated a park in Amritsar East constituency, represented by her father.

Not joining politics

I am not joining politics. I am just representing my father in his absence as he is occupied in a ‘bigger’ fight for Punjab. — Rabia Sidhu, Navjot Sidhu’s Daughter

However, she denied joining politics. “I am just representing my father in his absence as he is occupied in a ‘bigger’ fight for Punjab,” she said.

Interestingly, the park located in the B-Block of New Amritsar was already inaugurated by Amritsar Improvement Trust former president Dinesh Bassi, who was the first casualty after Sidhu visited Amritsar and replaced him with his ally Damandeep Singh Uppal. When questioned about the park’s second time inauguration, she said: “The development work worth Rs 33 lakh of beautification of parks was stalled for long. Now, it has been officially resumed and I inagaurated it on behalf of my father”, she said.

She said her father is an ‘emotional’ person whose heart beat for Punjab. “He feels the pain of Punjab. Don’t you need leaders who would be emotional about Punjab?” she said. It was not for the first time when Rabia participated in a political programme actively. A graduate in fashion designing from Singapore and London, she had grabbed the headlines first on May 26 when she hoisted the black flag in favour of the protesting farmers atop the residence in Amritsar. — TNS