"AAP Always Recognised My Work": Navjot Sidhu Tweet Sets Up Guessing Game

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu's post on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today set up a guessing game in election season in Punjab. AAP had always "recognised my vision and work for Punjab" and knows who is really fighting for the state, he wrote, raising speculation that he is warming up to Arvind Kejriwal's party.

"Our opposition AAP has always recognised my vision and work for Punjab. Be it before 2017- Beadbi, drugs, farmers issues, corruption and power crisis faced by people of Punjab, raised by me or today as I present 'Punjab Model'. It is clear they know - who is really fighting for Punjab," Mr Sidhu wrote at first.

"If the opposition dares to question me, yet they can't escape my pro-people agenda ... This means they have resigned to their fate," the cricketer-turned-politician added in another tweet.

Mr Sidhu's tweet was in response to an old video clip of AAP leader Sanjay Singh praising him for "taking the bold step" of quitting the BJP in 2017 and for raising his voice against the Akali Dal and the Parkash Singh Badal family that leads it.

Mr Sidhu's double-shaded tweet opened up more than one possibility. Many saw it as a dead giveaway that after his protracted feud with Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and his fight for a bigger slice of power, he is on his way to AAP, the party he had passed over when he joined the Congress before the Punjab election in 2017.

However, another tweet by Mr Sidhu appeared to back the theory that the posts were meant as sarcasm towards the Congress's Punjab rival and that he has actually buried his differences with Amarinder Singh, aka "Captain".

Our Opposition singing about me and other loyal Congressmen :-
तुम अगर आप (AAP) में आयोगे तो कोई बात नहीं ... तुम अगर काँग्रेस में रहोगे तो मुश्किल होगी I

— Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) July 13, 2021

"Mr Sidhu has been attacking AAP in his tweets over the past 48 hours," a Congress leader pointed out.

Pertinent questions of People of Punjab on Beadbi issue to Badals :-
1. Why no proper inquiry by Badal Govt into theft of “Bir of Guru Granth Sahib Ji” at Village Burj Jawahar Singh Wala on June 1, 2015, which led to Sacrilege, followed by protests and firing in October 2015 ?

— Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) July 12, 2021

That his target has shifted from the Captain to AAP and Akali Dal, sources say, is a hint that he has made peace with Amarinder Singh after both leaders met with the Gandhis.