People will choose CM, not Cong high command: Navjot Singh Sidhu

TIL Desk/National/Chandigarh/ People elect MLAs and in Punjab, they will choose their chief minister as well, not the Congress ‘high command’, the party’s state unit chief Navjot Singh Sidhu asserted on Tuesday. Sidhu made the sharp retort amid speculation that the former cricketer is himself eyeing the top post if the Congress wins next month’s assembly polls.

“The people of Punjab will make the CM. Who told you that the high command will make the CM?” he shot back at a reporter while answering a question on the party’s possible pick for the post.

The Congress is yet to announce a CM face for the upcoming assembly polls and Charanjit Singh Channi, appointed the CM after the ouster of Amarinder Singh, is also being seen as a strong contender if the divided party wins.

As the campaign for the assembly polls picks up, Sidhu has at times targeted his own party’s government in the state — just like he did when Amarinder Singh was the chief minister. “Listen to me. The people of Punjab had elected MLAs five years back. It is the people of Punjab to decide whether they become MLAs,” continued Sidhu.