'Met My Mentor': Navjot Singh Sidhu Visits Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka In Delhi After Release From Jail

Navjot Sidhu was released from the Patiala Central Jail on April 2 after spending around 10 months in connection with a 1988 road rage case.

Navjot Singh Sidhu With Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka on Thursday.

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday met Rahul Gandhi and general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Delhi. In a tweet, Navjot Sidhu called Rahul Gandhi his "mentor" and Priyanka his "friend, philosopher, and guide".

 

"Met my Mentor Rahul ji and Friend, Philosopher, Guide Priyanka ji in New Delhi Today. You can Jail me , Intimidate me, Block all my financial accounts but My commitment for Punjab and My Leaders will neither flinch nor back an inch," he tweet.

 

Navjot Sidhu was released from the Patiala Central Jail on April 2 after spending around 10 months in connection with a 1988 road rage case. On May 20 last year, Sidhu was imprisoned after he surrendered before the Patiala court. After stepping out of jail, Sidhu targeted the BJP-led Centre, alleging that "democracy is in chains" and institutions have turned slaves in the country. He had also claimed that a conspiracy was being hatched to impose President's Rule in Punjab.

The cricketer-turned-politician called Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann as "akhbari mukhyamantri" for giving big ads in papers.

"Whenever dictatorship came in the country, a revolution came and today, I say the revolution's name is Rahul Gandhi," Sidhu said. "Today democracy is in chains, there is nothing like democracy today. Institutions have turned slaves and these have been made rubber 'ke gudde' (dolls)," he said.

He later met the parents of slain singer Sidhu Moose Wala at their residence in Punjab's Mansa district on Monday.

Navjot Sidhu resigned as the Punjab Congress president last year after the party received a drubbing in the assembly election. Sidhu took the step after Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi had asked him to. He was replaced by Amarinder Singh Brar (Raja Warring).