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Navjot Sidhu in trouble for calling Rahul Gandhi 'Amarinder Singh's captain', Punjab ministers call for his resignation

Sidhu later backtracked on his claim that Congress president Rahul Gandhi was involved in his decision to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the Kartarpur corridor.

New Delhi: The row over the trip to Kartarpur in Pakistan escalated in Punjab after three state ministers on Saturday called for Navjot Singh Sidhu's resignation from the state cabinet. This came in the wake of Sidhu mocking Capt Amarinder Singh when reporters asked him about going to Pakistan despite his disapproval and claimed Congress president Rahul Gandhi as Capt's captain. "Rahul Gandhi is my captain. It is he who sent me to Pakistan. Rahul Gandhi is the captain of the captain (Amarinder Singh) also," Sidhu had said on Friday. Reacting to this, the Punjab ministers said if Sidhu, who holds the local bodies and tourism portfolios, didn't consider Amarinder Singh to be his captain, he should quit the chief minister's team. "If he does not consider Capt Amarinder as his captain then he should resign on moral grounds from the cabinet and do whatever work is assigned to him by Rahul Gandhi," Rural Development and Panchayat minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa said reported PTI. Sidhu later backtracked on his claim that Congress president Rahul Gandhi was involved in his decision to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the Kartarpur corridor. "Get your facts right before you distort them, Rahul Gandhi Ji never asked me to go to Pakistan. The whole world knows I went to Pakistan on Prime Minister Imran Khan's personal invite," Sidhu tweeted.
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