Will Sidhu joint too?

With the SAD-BJP alliance putting an end to speculations of a breakup in the ties, Chief Parliamentary Secretary Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu said she and her husband Navjot Singh Sidhu would not campaign nor contest the upcoming elections under the alliance.
She said before reaching any conclusion, the central leadership should have taken the state BJP workers in the loop.
She said they would stick to their stand of parting ways with the BJP if the alliance continued. She said her husband deliberately avoided to be part of the campaign for Arun Jaitley during the last Lok Sabha elections due to the Akali presence.
“It does not make sense now to campaign together when we don’t get along. The Punjab BJP workers who have been complaining for the past four years should have at least given some consideration by the central leadership,” she said.
Without naming any particular party, she said they were yet to decide whether to join another party or contest independently. “We both have yet to explore other options. A person commits mistake for the first time, but should never repeat it,” she said.
While pointing out the “lack” of governance in the state, she said they (SAD) had not been able to put a cap on drug menace which prospered due to the politician-police nexus and it was a mere eyewash exercise to catch hold of drug addicts or implicate the wrong persons on frivolous charges.
After days of speculation, satirist Gurpreet Ghuggi finally joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
Speaking on the occasion, he said his conscious forced him to take this path after seeing the plight of the farmers and the common man in the state.
Ghuggi said, “The reports of farmers committing suicide sadden me every day. Drugs, killer roads and apathy of the government, all these issues forced me to join AAP.”
“I have a better and comparatively secure future in films but I want to pay back to the state that made me what I am today,” Ghuggi said, adding that Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann was his inspiration and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s movement motivated him.
Ghuggi joined the party in the presence of state party affairs incharge Sanjay Singh, state convener Sucha Singh Chhotepur and national organisation head Durgesh Pathak. He will concentrate on the Majha region.
Ghuggi has remained the brand ambassador of the Punjab Election Commission. He had, on the occasion of National Voters Day on January 25, said he was not interested in joining any political party. Sanjay Singh said Ghuggi had been raising the issue related to Punjab for a long time and his joining AAP would further strengthen the party.
Chhotepur said with his political satires, Ghuggi had always been successful in sending the right message to people and the party would get benefit from his experience.
Bhagwant Mann said he was happy that one of his close associates had joined the party to raise the real issues concerning people from the right platform.