Will not backtrack on issues raised as he stands by his resignation, Navjot Sidhu tells party leaders

Aman Sood

Tribune News Service

Patiala, September 29

Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu has made it clear to the party leaders who met him since Tuesday that he “is not going to backtrack on the issues raised by him and stands by his resignation”.

Following his resignation as PPCC chief on Tuesday, Sidhu met his close aides till the wee hours of Wednesday. Some Youth Congress leaders also met him over breakfast.

An MLA who spent over two hours with Sidhu told The Tribune that Sidhu would not take back his resignation with the “given set of ministers and officers appointed in the past two days”.

Ready to make any sacrifice but will stick to principles, says Navjot Sidhu

“He clearly told us that if no one is willing to stand by him, he would continue to move ahead and fight till his vision of Punjab was fulfilled,” the MLA said.

Another leader said, “Sidhu is unwilling to commit anything on phone. In case the party wants to reach him with a message, he is incommunicado till they visit him in Patiala,” he said.

Meanwhile, a senior party leader said the party high command didn’t want that behind-the-scene parleys of government formation under Channi be made public by Sidhu. “It is not in the interest of either the party or the government if these things, including the selections of DGP and advocate general, come out in the open,” he said.