Sidhu May Shift Back To Patiala For Lok Sabha Elections

Cricketer-turned-BJP Parliamentarian from the city of Amritsar Navjot Singh Sidhu may move back to Patiala accompanying his latest argument with the party management.

Even though Navjot and his wife, chief parliamentary secretary Dr. Navjot Kaur Sidhu, have been at pains to stress that they have now settled down at Amritsar, which has become his ‘karambhoomi’ after his poll to the Lok Sabha, first in the year 2004, after that in the year 2007, and again in the year 2009, his disturbed relations with Punjab revenue head Bikram Singh Majithia, who is also the brother-in-law of deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal, have turned life hard for Navjot Singh Sidhu.

His ignorance in the BJP power arrangement accompanying substitution of Nitin Gadkari by Rajnath Singh as BJP national president may prove to be the proverbial deciding factor, which hit the camel’s back hard. Though Rajnath Singh has set up contact with Navjot and has attempted to pacify him accompanying the public exposure of his grudges by Sidhu’s wife, it is doubtful that Sidhu would be reinstated to the place of supremacy he basked under Gadkari.

It is also notable that over the years, Navjot’s status has been waning in the city of Amritsar.

With BJP management ‘defecting’ him, Sidhu will find it a mounting task to replicate his performance in the city. Hence, the mounting talks of his shifting back to his home town, Patiala where he may be picked out against union minister of state for external affairs Preneet Kaur.