CPS Sidhu leaves BJP leaders red faced at state party meeting
Saturday, 02/07/2016
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Jalandhar : BJP’s state level meeting in Jalandhar on Friday left party leaders red-faced after firebrand leader and CPS Navjot Kaur Sidhu categorically cornered the SAD leadership for patronizing drugs trade and for BJP remaining a mute spectator in Punjab.
While the BJP district presidents ended up giving suggestions that they should break alliance with the SAD, BJP Punjab Affairs incharge Prabhat Jha brushed aside such thoughts stating that the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was running a malicious campaign on drugs abuse against the SAD-BJP alliance.
“Even when Jaitley contested, he never came to campaign,” Sidhu claimed, “Because he never wanted to share the stage with the Badals”.
Not taking things down, CPS Navjot Kaur Sidhu declared that her husband won’t attend meetings of the panel till the party remained in alliance with the SAD. This came as a surprise for many who saw the induction of Rajya Sabha MP Navjot Singh Sidhu into the Punjab BJP core committee last week as his return to the poll-bound state’s political arena.
“Shukar karo main aa gayi! Hun BJP de palle ki bacheya hai Punjab vich? (Thank God that I have come! What’s left of the BJP in Punjab now?),” she remarked.
However, Jha’s efforts to put an end to these suggestions were cornered by Sidhu, who left the party leadership speechless with a volley of questions, clearly blaming the SAD for drugs abuse.
Talking to the media, Sidhu said that, “Why don’t the CM hold a review to check that how his leaders were amassing Rs 100-200 crore of property?” she questioned. The firebrand leader said that MLAs were getting a monthly salary, but how come some of the leaders were able to make property worth crores?
The CPS said the Punjab government was freely distributing red beacons to every leader within the party. “It was under the garb of red beacon vehicles of political leaders that drugs were being freely supplied in the state,” she added.
