Punjab Congress 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”.
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”. He said he had seen him playing and practicing cricket when he was young. “I don’t remember having met him for a long time now”, he added.