<p>The Congress on Thursday said it has authorised its Punjab unit chief Amarinder Singh to take a call on former BJP leader Navjot Singh Sidhu’s entry into the party.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The Congress has been sending feelers to Sidhu, whose plans of joining the Aam Aadmi Party as its lead campaigner for the upcoming Punjab Assembly elections ran into rough weather.<br /><br />“We have authorised Amarinder Singh to deal with the issue,” AICC chief spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala replied to questions on whether the Congress would welcome Sidhu into the party.<br /><br />Though the Congress has maintained that it was not in talks with Sidhu, Amarinder has time and again said he was welcome to join the party.<br /><br />“Sidhu has Congress in his DNA. His father was a general secretary of the party and remains a member,” Amarinder said in Chandigarh on Tuesday.<br /><br />Reports also said that the Congress had even expressed its readiness to make Sidhu the deputy chief minister of Punjab at a later date if he chose to join the party.<br /><br />Sidhu had quit as Rajya Sabha member on July 18, an action that was welcomed instantly by AAP convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.<br /><br />It is learnt that Sidhu had demanded that he be made the AAP’s chief ministerial face for Punjab and a party ticket for his wife.<br /><br />Kejriwal had said Sidhu had met him, but wanted more time to decide whether or not to join the AAP.<br /><br /></p>
<p>The Congress on Thursday said it has authorised its Punjab unit chief Amarinder Singh to take a call on former BJP leader Navjot Singh Sidhu’s entry into the party.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The Congress has been sending feelers to Sidhu, whose plans of joining the Aam Aadmi Party as its lead campaigner for the upcoming Punjab Assembly elections ran into rough weather.<br /><br />“We have authorised Amarinder Singh to deal with the issue,” AICC chief spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala replied to questions on whether the Congress would welcome Sidhu into the party.<br /><br />Though the Congress has maintained that it was not in talks with Sidhu, Amarinder has time and again said he was welcome to join the party.<br /><br />“Sidhu has Congress in his DNA. His father was a general secretary of the party and remains a member,” Amarinder said in Chandigarh on Tuesday.<br /><br />Reports also said that the Congress had even expressed its readiness to make Sidhu the deputy chief minister of Punjab at a later date if he chose to join the party.<br /><br />Sidhu had quit as Rajya Sabha member on July 18, an action that was welcomed instantly by AAP convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.<br /><br />It is learnt that Sidhu had demanded that he be made the AAP’s chief ministerial face for Punjab and a party ticket for his wife.<br /><br />Kejriwal had said Sidhu had met him, but wanted more time to decide whether or not to join the AAP.<br /><br /></p>
