Punjab Congress President Capt Amarinder Singh, flanked by the party’s new star campaigner Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday said he will order a reinvestigation into the drug racket case in which Cabinet Minister Bikram Singh Majithia was given a clean shit by the SIT if his party came to power.
“We will order a reinvestigation into the drug racket case in which Majithia was given a clean chit by the SIT and throw behind bars those involved in the narcotics trade after coming to power in the State,” he said at a Press conference here.
With Amritsar East candidate Navjot Singh Sidhu on his side, Capt Amarinder made it clear that the cricketer-turned-politician had joined Congress sans a precondition and will seek votes as a star campaigner. “He is a foot soldier of the party and has joined it without any condition. He never put forth any condition,” he said.
On AAP’s charge that he was going soft on Parkash Singh Badal, an aggressive Amarinder asked if the media wanted him to “thrash” the chief minister. He said he had chosen to contest from lambi Assembly seat to hand Badal a crushing defeat and the public mood was against the ruling family.
Asked if AAP posed a threat to SAD in the polls, he said the rival party was in doldrums and has no connect to Punjab. “So many AAP workers, including founding members, are joining Congress. Many AAP leaders were entering the party fold in Amritsar today,” he said. With the party’s nine candidates from the region by his side, Captain Amarinder also exuded confidence that his party would win all the nine seats in Majha.
Responding to media queries, Sidhu quashed all speculation on his vying for a post in the next Congress government, saying “son is son, and father is father.”
Interjecting in response to a hypothetical question posed to Captain Amarinder if he will accept Sidhu as the Chief Minister, the cricketer-turned-politician and newcomer to the Congress ranks quipped, “If aunty becomes a man then she would be called uncle.”
Declaring that he was there because of Captain, Sidhu asserted that he would go to lambi as campaigner to give Badal a bigger thrashing.
Sidhu dismissed AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal as a confused man who was losing his mind as he was feeling the heat in the Punjab polls, saying he was making all sorts of senseless allegations out of sheer bewilderment. To another question, Captain Amarinder said he had promised Navjot Kaur Sidhu that she would be accommodated in the government following the elections. “My wife also vacated her seat for me,” he quipped.