Congress Leader Navjot Singh Sidhu’s wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu on Friday, claimed that her husband and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu had gifted the Punjab Chief Minister’s position to Bhagwant Mann claiming AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal had offered him the position but Sidhu declined it since he did not wanted to betray his party, Congress.

She claimed Kejriwal had approached Navjot Singh Sidhu through various channels for CM’s position. She further added, her husband’s only concern was the welfare of Punjab and he has sacrificed everything for it. She added, Sidhu believes two strong-headed men cannot work together hence, he turned down Kejriwal’s offer.

Punjab went to polls in February 2022, that marked AAP’s power debut in the state with Bhagwant Mann becoming the CM.

She said, Mann would walk on the path of truth then Sidhu would support him and if Mann deviates from the truth then his husband is encircle him from all the sides. Mann had slammed the opposition for their gathering in Jalandhar to support the Editor of Punjab Daily, who is under a vigilance scanner.

Responding to which Kaur said, Mann is running Punjab as pawns being remote controlled from Delhi(referring to AAP high command) and should stop moral lecturing the people.

On June 1, several leaders had gathered at the office of the Punjabi Newspaper Ajit in Jalandhar in support of its Editor-In-Chief Barjinder Singh Hamdard who is under the scanner of Vigilance Bureau over alleged misuse of funds in the construction of Rs 315 crore Jang-e-Azadi memorial in Jalandhar.        

Navjot Kaur Sidhu, who has been battling with Cancer lately, is a former MLA in the Punjab Legislative Assembly and a former Minister. While, Navjot Singh Sidhu, now a Congress leader is a former Indian cricketer. The husband Sidhu made his political debut in 2004 wining the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat in a BJP ticket. He also served as a Minister in then Amarinder Singh government in Punjab.

Amid the reports of the strife between ruling BJP-Jannayak Janata Party(JJP) alliance in Haryana, 4 independent MLAs meet BJP state in-charge Biplab Kumar Deb expressing confidence in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership.

Deb said, Haryana MLAs Dharam Pal Gonder, Rakesh Daulatabad, Randhir Singh and Somveer Sangwan met him on Thursday and expressed confidence in PM Modi’s leadership.

Deb said, the party believes in PM Modi’s slogan Sabka Saath and Sabka Vikas and is leaving no stone unturned for the growth and development of Haryana. The BJP had taken the support of JJP to form the government in Haryana in 2019, since it failed to get a majority in the state election.

JJP leader Dushyant Chautala has been holding the Deputy Chief Minister’s post since 2019, after the government formation with Manohar Lal Khattar as the Chief Minister. There has been tension arising between the two parties as leaders of the two parties had a war of words with each other. Deb even said the JJP did no favor to the BJP by supporting it, as JJP is also part of the government in Haryana.

There have been reports of recent disagreement between the two parties on contesting the upcoming elections in 2024 together. Chautala when asked whether the two parties will contest together in 2024, he diplomatically replied, he is not an astrologer and cannot predict what the future has in store for the parties. He told the media that both parties will contest for 90 seats on their own in the 2024 elections.  

The news on Twitter started spreading like wildfire as diverse comments on the tweet started appearing, where one user said BJP should take support of these four candidates as the alliance government has done a lot of corruption in the state.

Another user hailed the BJP alliance government and said, Har Har Modi Ghar Ghar Modi. Another user said that this is all hypocrisy of the BJP in Haryana.  

The war of words between Congress and External Affairs S Jaishankar is continuing. Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh hit back at Jaishankar for his criticism of Rahul Gandhi for his remarks made in the US recently. He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi began taking domestic politics abroad first.

On Ramesh’s tweet, people wrote various comments, where one said Rahul Gandhi is a failed dynast and has been rejected by 1.2 billion people of the country twice and has now turned to the Indian NRI population living abroad. He also said the hypocrisy of Congress knew no limits.

Earlier, Jaishankar had slammed Gandhi for his habit of criticising India outside the country, saying this was not good for the health of democracy in India. He added, he did not have a problem with what happened within the country, but taking politics outside the national boundaries was not best for the nation’s interest.

Congress General Secretary Randeep Surjewala mocked that the BJP had given an old script to Jaishankar and he should read a new one. He further added, the Prime Minister had made fun of previous governments and insulted the country’s 70-year-old history, whereas Rahul Gandhi had said that there was a planned systematic attack going on the democratic institutions of the country, which was the truth.

Earlier, Jaishankar had said in a press conference that Gandhi has a habit of criticizing the country and making comments on domestic politics in foreign soil. He said the world has its eyes set on India and this creates a detrimental effect on the image of the country on the world stage. He said elections are held and sometimes one party wins or the other party wins. He was confident the NDA-led government would come back to power in 2024.

He advised Rahul Gandhi that taking politics outside India will not help in improving his face value.