Punjab vigilance detects 5 'shady deals' by Sidhu, private firms when he was Min: Sources

Amid ongoing tiff between Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu, sources on Sunday, reported that Punjab vigilance has detected alleged 'shy deals' between Sidhu, his staff and certain corporate firms during his term as a minister. Sources stated that vigilance team was probing Sidhu, his wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu, his OSD Bunny Sandhu, PA Gaurav and clerk Rajiv kumar for five alleged shy deals by favouring certain firms in his tenure as minister. Sidhu retaliated to probe saying, "Most welcome. Pls do your best Capt Amarinder Singh".

Punjab vigilance finds five shy deals between Sidhu & firms

Sidhu: 'Stop firing from your colleagues'

 On Thursday, disgruntled Congress leer Navjot Singh Sidhu asked Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh to stop attacking him by proxy through his Cabinet colleagues. woes in Congress camp escalated after 7 Punjab Ministers- Gurpreet Kangar, Balbir Singh Sidhu, Bharat Bhushan Ashu, Vijay Inder Singla, Brahm Mohindra, Sunder Sham Arora and Shu Singh Dharamsot demanded strict disciplinary action against Sidhu for his "anti-party activities". cricketer-turned-politician has been repeatedly attacking state government and Singh over purported delay in justice in incidents of desecration of Guru Granth Sahib and subsequent police firing incident in 2015.

Sidhu's resignation

After a tumultuous spat with CM Captain Amarinder Singh during Lok Sabha elections, Sidhu sent his resignation on June 10 to former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and tweeted about same a month later. On June 6, Sidhu was given power and new and renewable energy portfolio and was divested of ministry of Local Government and Tourism and Cultural Affairs Departments. While he tendered his resignation as Punjab minister, cricketer-turned-politician later confirmed that he will remain with Congress.

Sidhu has been at loggerhes with Punjab Chief Minister after he denied Sidhu's wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu a ticket for Lok Sabha elections. He and his wife have publically attacked Punjab CM repeatedly during election campaign. He has also courted massive controversy over his remarks attacking PM Modi, Smriti Irani and BJP. He later patched up with CM Amarinder Singh over an informal lunch, but it seems to have gone awry as Sidhu began to attack CM again after Punjab & Haryana HC quashed SIT probe into 2015 firing cases on April 9. 

Breaking his silence on Sidhu's attacks, Singh on April 27 dared him to contest from Patiala in 2022 polls and predicted that he will lose his deposit. Moreover, he contended that cricketer-turned-politician wanted to join some or party. Ruling out possibility of replacing Sunil Jakhar as Punjab Congress president, CM asserted that he would oppose suggestion of giving top post to Sidhu. ditionally, he also dismissed claim of ex-BJP MP on Deputy CM's position.