Navjot Sidhu’s security restored
Thursday, 16/10/2014
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Amritsar: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)-led Punjab government on Wednesday restored the security cover to former BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu, a day after he attacked the ruling dispensation for withdrawing it. The security cover to Sidhu has been restored and he has been provided three Punjab police gunmen, the Punjab Police said.
Sidhu had on Tuesday attacked the ruling SAD-government in Punjab for indulging in ‘petty’ politics and hitting ‘below the belt’ after it withdrew his security cover.
“There were three security personnel provided to me for security. All of them have been withdrawn,” Sidhu had said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, attempts to reach out to Sidhu turned futile as his associate said the former Amritsar MP has gone abroad from Maharashtra.
He, however, said that the security cover to Sidhu had been restored. Sidhu’s wife, Navjot Kaur, who is a sitting MLA and Chief Parliamentary Secretary (CPS), is away to Delhi for a ‘family function,’ her associate said. Sidhu had taken on the SAD leadership head-on during his canvassing for the BJP candidates in Haryana. SAD is contesting Assembly polls in Haryana in alliance with the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), the party which was under severe attack from Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his election rallies in the state.
The cricketer-turned-politician had said that they (Akalis) have no answers to the questions he had raised.
Sidhu had said that whatever he had been saying (about Akalis), they should have called him and discussed the matter across the table rather than taking such ‘petty steps and hitting below the belt’.
Among other places, Sidhu had also campaigned against the Akalis in Ambala City and Kolianwali in Sirsa, both of which are being fought by the SAD. The remaining 88 seats in 90-member Haryana Assembly are being contested by SAD’s Haryana ally the INLD.
