Navjot Singh Sidhu to float new party
Chandigarh: Punjab politics took another turn on Friday as a new entrant has come intothe political matrix, with cricketer turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu forming a new political front. Other than Sidhu front includes, olympian and Akali MLA Pargat Singh and independent legislators from Ludhiana, Balwinder Singh Bains and Simarjit Singh Bains, who are popularly know as Bains brothers in Punjab.
The party will be launched by September 9 and its name will be announced later. The politician's wife, Navjot Kaur Sidhu, who is a BJP MLA in the Punjab Assembly, shared a bright poster that reads ‘Awaz-e-Punjab’ or Voice of Punjab. It features Sidhu dressed in black and flanked by former hockey great and his close friend Pargat Singh and two independent MLAs.