Congress' Navjot Singh Sidhu makes political resurgence attempts in Punjab after poll debacle

Resuming political activities, as one of the opposition leaders now, ex-Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu fiercely raised his voice against inflation and rising fuel prices during a protest in Amritsar. 

New Delhi: After remaining nearly dormant ever since the announcement of the Punjab assembly election results, the Congress leadership is gradually getting back to work with its former state president Navjot Singh Sidhu. 

Sidhu is still trying to hold the reins of the party even as he was asked by Congress president Sonia Gandhi to put down his papers following the embarrassing performance of the party.

Resuming his political activities, as one of the opposition leaders now, Sidhu fiercely raised his voice against inflation and rising fuel prices during a protest in Amritsar. 

Accompanied by an array of Congress leaders including former Deputy Chief Minister OP Soni who had also lost in the recently concluded assembly elections along with other sitting MLAs. Sidhu censured Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Central government for allegedly failing to check the inflation which, he said, had hit the poor hardest and not the 5% of the riches of India which was unaffected by the price rise.

Two days earlier, Sidhu visited the house of a slain Dalit Congress worker Iqbal Singh in his native village Kassoana in Zira tehsil of Ferozpur district to express sympathy to the bereaved family.