Chandigarh. Days after facing a crushing defeat to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab, state Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday resigned from his post. In his resignation letter to party president Sonia Gandhi, Sidhu wrote, “I resign from the post of president (PPCC).”
AAP party came to power by winning the assembly elections with a three-fourth majority.
A day earlier, Sonia Gandhi had asked Sidhu in Punjab, Ganesh Godiyal in Uttarakhand, Ajay Kumar Lallu in Uttar Pradesh, Girish Chodankar in Goa and Namirpam Loken Singh in Manipur to resign.
Sidhu, once a chief ministerial contender, had to face defeat from his bastion Amritsar (East) seat.
He was pitted against Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia but lost to AAP’s candidate Jeevanjyot Kaur, who defeated him by a margin of 6,750 votes.
The cricketer-turned-politician had not only defeated his BJP rival Rajesh Honey by a huge margin of over 42,000 votes in 2017 but also played a game-changer for the party by winning 10 out of 11 seats in Amritsar district.
Sidhu has been a BJP MP from Amritsar for three times. In 2014, he left this seat for his mentor Arun Jaitley. He was later accommodated in the Rajya Sabha by the BJP but left the party and resigned from the Parliament after not getting a bigger role in Punjab.
—AnyTV News
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