With just two days to go for voting in the Lok Sabha polls in the state, knives are out in Punjab Congress. About Dr Sidhu, he elaborated that she had been offered ticket from Amritsar and Bathinda, but she refused the same. The tension between the cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu and the CM had been simmering for a while. Amarinder Singh had spoken out against Sidhu hugging Pakistan army chief during his visit to the neighbouring country. Last year in Hyderabad, Sidhu had said that “Rahul Gandhi is my captain.Rahul Gandhi is the captain of captain (Amarinder Singh) also”.

Source: Indian Express May 17, 2019 00:52 UTC