Sidhu targets CM, but retracts on break-up
Saturday, 15/11/2014
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Amritsar/Tarn Taran : Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu, BJP MLA and Chief Parliamentary Secretary (CPS), has taken a U-turn on her statement released only a day before that her party should walk out of the SAD-led state government.
Talking to mediapersons at Sri Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College for Women near Tarn Taran today, she said she had only said that "the Akali Dal needed to mend its ways and would have to reform its policies to make cordial relations with its partner BJP". During the day in Amritsar, she shot off a missive to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, lamenting that none of the issues raised by her with him and various ministries regarding her Amritsar (East) constituency had been addressed during the last around three years.
In her letter to the CM, a copy of which was released to the media, she said, "My area is a picture of complete neglect, lacking even the most basic facilities like sewerage, drainage, roads, water supply and street lights. The Deputy CM had promised Rs 100 crore, but even its first instalment is still awaited." She also hit back at Akali leader Virsa Singh Valtoha for demanding her resignation. She said "she was not Arvind Kejriwal to put in her papers".
