Navjot Singh Sidhu joins Congress before Punjab elections

Navjot Singh Sidhu, former Rajya Sabha member from Punjab on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) platform, was inducted into the Congress party here on Sunday, in the presence of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi.

This comes shortly before the legislative assembly poll in the state, on February 4. Sidhu’s wife, Navjot Kaur, an MLA from the Amritsar East assembly constituency, originally on a BJP ticket, had joined the Congress on November 28. 

Sidhu, a former Test cricketer-turned-TV personality, is expected to campaign across Punjab. However, there are concerns on how well he’d get along with local party leaders. Triggered, among other things, was