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New Delhi, October 26
After Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa hinted that former BJP leader Navjot Singh Sidhu would join their party on the auspicious day of Diwali, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday said Sidhu is a “human bomb” and “would explode once he entered the Congress”.
Badal told the media that Congress state chief Capt Amarinder Singh is trying to downplay Bajwa by saying that he had no objection to Sidhu joining the party.
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He said both Bajwa and Amarinder abused each other. “They want to harm each other and Sidhu is a human bomb that will go and explode there,” Badal said.
Earlier, Bajwa on Tuesday said that the matter of Sidhu joining the Congress was under the high command’s consideration. It is Diwali time and Sidhu might get a ‘Diwali gift’, he said.
When asked whether it meant that Sidhu would join the party, he said, “It could be.” Replying to another query, the Rajya Sabha MP said, “If Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi asks me to fight the Assembly elections, I would contest. I am ready to leave the Rajya Sabha and contest polls to strengthen the party.”
Amarinder recently had said that he had no objection to Sidhu and other Awaaz-e-Punjab leaders joining the Congress. He said he was in fact the first one to invite Sidhu to join the Congress when the former cricketer had quit the BJP.
Amarinder had done a U-turn over the issue after meeting Rahul Gandhi last week, indicating that talks were on between Sidhu and the party high command. ANI