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Misplaced Loyalty? Congress Denies Lok Sabha Ticket To Navjot Singh Sidhu’s Wife From Both Amritsar, Chandigarh
Navjot Singh Sidhu with his wife Navjot Kaur (Facebook)
Former MLA Navjot Kaur, wife of Navjot Singh Sidhu has been denied party ticket by Congress party for the Amritsar and Chandigarh Lok Sabha seats.
The party instead fielded former Railways Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal from Chandigarh and Gurjit Singh Aujla from Amritsar respectively. Bansal will be looking to win the MP seat for the fifth time from Chandigarh constituency.
“It is not clear whether the local unit did not push her case or she herself was not keen on Amritsar. There was, however, talk among local leaders about proposing the cabinet minister’s name instead,” said a senior leader of the party.
Kaur was vying to contest from Chandigarh and had Amritsar as a back-up, she had to drop out of the elections in 2017 in line with the party rule of ‘one family’ ‘one ticket’, giving her seat to her husband who eventually won the seat. Kaur was parliamentary secretary for BJP-SAD regime before switching over to the Congress party.
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