Through PTI
PATIALA: No senior Punjab Congress chief was once observed both at Navjot Singh Sidhu’s place of abode right here or at a court docket the place the previous cricketer surrendered on a Ideal Courtroom order.
The Ideal Courtroom has sentenced Sidhu to a 12 months in prison in a 1988 street rage case resulting in the demise of a person.
A couple of former MLAs, regarded as to be his loyalists and a couple of supporters, became up at Sidhu’s place of abode in Patiala Friday morning to increase ethical beef up to him.
They incorporated former MLAs Navtej Singh Cheema, Ashwani Sekhri, Surjit Singh Dhiman, Hardial Singh Kamboj, Primal Singh, Nazar Singh Manshahia and Jagdev Singh Kamalu.
In addition they accompanied Sidhu to the court docket the place the previous cricketer surrendered.
They had been additionally provide at Mata Kaushalya Devi Health center the place Sidhu’s scientific exam was once carried out.
Sidhu was once later despatched to Patiala prison.
Chatting with journalists out of doors Sidhu’s place of abode in Patiala, Cheema, ex-MLA from Sultanpur Lodhi, stated Sidhu respects the SC verdict.
Navtej Cheema, then again, downplayed the absence of distinguished leaders, pronouncing everybody has expressed their ethical beef up.
Cheema additionally stated Congress normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had additionally conveyed her beef up over the telephone.
“Sidhu ji will come again and shine as soon as once more,” Cheema stated, including that Sidhu will make a comeback to politics after serving his sentence.
Cheema in conjunction with Sekhri and Dhiman have been essentially the most visual faces whilst Sidhu have been keeping parallel conferences.
Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring and any other senior chief of the celebration Partap Singh Bajwa prolonged beef up to Sidhu, pronouncing whilst they recognize the Ideal Courtroom verdict, they stand through their celebration colleague and his circle of relatives.
In his tweet, Warring stated, “With due recognize for the decision of the Hon Ideal Courtroom, I stand through my senior colleague @sherryontopp ji and his circle of relatives at this hard hour.”
Warring, who was once a few of the distinguished Punjab Congress leaders who didn’t flip up at Sidhu’s Patiala place of abode, described Sidhu as his elder brother and stated, “I really like him so much.”
Bajwa, who’s the Chief of the Opposition in Punjab, additionally tweeted to precise beef up.
“The INC bows sooner than the decision of the Hon. Ideal Courtroom. Moreover, the Punjab Congress and I can stand firmly in the back of @sherryontopp and his circle of relatives on this tricky time,” stated Bajwa.
After the SC sentenced Sidhu to at least one 12 months in prison, Congress MLA Rana Gurjeet Singh on Thursday had stated the apex court docket order needs to be revered through everybody.
Singh, the Congress MLA from Kapurthala, had stated the apex court docket’s order needs to be revered through everybody and suggested Sidhu to do self-introspection whilst stressing that the decision was once now not a setback for the Congress.
Congress MLA and previous minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa had additionally now not observed the decision as a setback for the celebration and had stated the sufferer’s circle of relatives were given justice within the subject.
Navjot Sidhu misplaced the Amritsar East meeting seat within the 2022 meeting elections.
However after the 2022 election effects, Sidhu began actively elevating the state problems and taking at the AAP-led govt within the state.
Sidhu had even now not shared the level with the senior celebration leaders right through the set up rite of Amrinder Singh Raja Warring because the Punjab Congress leader closing month.
Sidhu, then again, had met Warring and congratulated him.
Remaining month, AICC in-charge Punjab Harish Chaudhary had written to celebration president Sonia Gandhi, searching for disciplinary motion towards Sidhu for seeking to “painting himself above the celebration”.
Chaudhary had additionally forwarded an in depth be aware to Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring relating to Sidhu’s “present actions”.
Warring in his be aware had highlighted Sidhu’s “parallel actions” and his conferences with expelled leaders together with former MLAs Surjit Singh Dhiman and Kewal Dhillon.
Chaudhary had famous within the letter that Sidhu relentlessly criticized the former Congress govt in spite of being requested now not to take action.
Following the celebration’s drubbing within the 5 states that went to the polls previous this 12 months, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi had requested the celebration chiefs there to surrender.
The Congress appointed Warring rather than Sidhu after its drubbing within the state meeting polls.