Congress win in civic elections will complete power chain: Navjot Sidhu

Amritsar, December 18
Congress Minister Navjot singh Sidhu said on Sunday that Congress party’s victory in the civic elections would complete “a chain of power” — Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on top, legislators in the middle and councillors at the bottom of the pyramid.

After he and his wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu cast their votes in Amritsar, Sidhu, Punjab’s local bodies minister, said: “Congress will create a history by hitting the hat trick-first — first winning 78 seats in Assembly, then a convincing win in Gurdaspur by-poll and now play ‘googlee’ to win the Corporation seats. This will complete the chain”.

He said that the party’s victory in the Amritsar Municipal Corporation elections would be Chief Minister Singh’s gift to the newly appointed AICC president Rahul Gandhi.

Speaking about Gandhi’s election, he cited the examples of India’s former prime ministers Jawarhar Lal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi to show the Nehru-Gandhi family’s “sacrifice and contribution to nation building”.

“They have just ‘given’ to the nation and never ‘taken’ anything. Congress is the new ray of hope for 70 per cent youth of future India under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi, who is being looked up as a rising leader and claimant for PM’s chair,” he said.