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Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday shared a photo of his meeting with Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi, sparking speculation about his return to active politics.
“Meet my mentor, beacon and guiding angel… I am grateful to him and brother for standing by me through difficult and difficult times….” Sidhu wrote along with the picture shared on his social media handle.
A prominent television personality. Sidhu, a cricket commentator and Congress party politician, had put on hold on party affairs after his release from Patiala jail in 2023 after completing his one-year imprisonment in the 1988 road rage death case.
Former Congress Punjab President
Sidhu is a former president of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee and was the minister for tourism and cultural affairs in the state under the Amarinder Singh-led Congress government.
Navjot Kaur Sidhu is active in her home constituency, Amritsar East Assembly constituency, a seat that both have represented in the past.
Sidhu’s political career.
Sidhu joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2004 and contested the general elections from Amritsar that year. He won the election and held the seat until 2014.
Sidhu was nominated to the Rajya Sabha from Punjab in 2016, but resigned from the post the same year and left the BJP. In 2017, he joined the Congress and was elected to the Punjab Assembly from Amritsar East. However, Sidhu lost from Amritsar East assembly constituency in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly elections.
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