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On Thursday, a meeting was held at Navjot Singh Sidhu's Patiala residence. In this meeting, Navjot Singh Sidhu and his party leaders decided that they will neither support Congress candidates in the Lok Sabha elections nor participate in any program with Congress candidates. On this occasion, apart from Navjot Singh Sidhu, many Congress leaders of Punjab including former Punjab Congress President Shamsher Singh Dullo, former MLA Nazar Singh Manshahiya, Jagdev Singh Kamalu, Mahesh Inder Singh and Bathinda Rural Congress in-charge Harbinder Ladi were present there.
The meeting concluded that the party remembers Navjot Singh Sidhu only when he is needed to strengthen the party, but after the elections he is ignored. During the period when the party decided the candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, no discussion was held with Navjot Singh Sidhu. However, now he is seeking Sidhu's support for campaign rallies.
Sidhu is angry with the party. He says that when Navjot Singh Sidhu was holding rallies across Punjab to strengthen the party, many leaders who organized these rallies were wrongfully expelled from the party. It was decided in the meeting that until the party resolves the entire matter by talking to the high command Navjot Singh Sidhu and re-inducts the leaders of the Sidhu faction who were expelled from the Congress into the party, no member of the Sidhu faction will Will not join Congress. Will not campaign for candidates.
He had refused the ticket citing his wife's ill health and later joined the IPL citing financial reasons. At present, Sidhu is associated with IPL as a commentator. Due to his association with IPL, Sidhu has kept distance from political programs. Due to this meeting held with the leaders of his group just before the Lok Sabha elections, the situation in Punjab Congress may once again become 'Sidhu versus everyone'.