Sidhu welcome in Cong: Amarinder
Wednesday, 20/07/2016
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NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said that former Amritsar MP Navjot Singh Sidhu was welcome to join the Congress, if he desired to do so. “Congress’ doors are open for everyone,” he remarked.
However, Capt Amarinder clarified that there was no communication between him and Sidhu on the matter. Asked whether any Congress leader was in touch with Sidhu, he said, “not to my knowledge”.
In an informal conversation with select group of reporters at his residence here today, the PCC president said, that Sidhu had a Congress background as his father late Bhagwant Singh Sidhu had remained an office bearer of the District Congress Committee, Patiala. “When my mother was DCC Patiala, president Sidhu’s father was her general secretary,” he said, while referring to long association of the Sidhu family with the Congress.
He said, later he served as the Advocate General of Punjab during Darbara Singh’s regime.
Asked whether he had met Sidhu of late, Capt Amarinder said, “we are both from Patiala and we are both Sidhus”.
