“ Insaan apna muqadar khud banata hai sahab. Aur baad mein usey honi ka naam de deta hai (A person makes his personal future, after which later phrases it destiny),” Navjot Singh Sidhu mentioned at a Goa resort on Could 31 because the cricketer-turned-politician and Congress chief returned as a motivational speaker after a spot of a decade.
Sidhu, who’s presently in the US to offer commentary and knowledgeable evaluation within the ongoing T20 World Cup cricket event, had put out a publish on X earlier than leaving India, saying that he was resuming motivational talks. The publish, together with a brief video of a motivational discuss he delivered, learn, “Taking a plunge, my first motivational discuss after ten years.”
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Although the Congress had included Sidhu in its record of star campaigners for the Lok Sabha elections in Punjab on June 1, the previous state get together chief and four-time Member of Parliament – thrice within the Lok Sabha and as soon as within the Rajya Sabha – stayed away from campaigning. As a substitute, he selected to return to cricket commentary after round a decade within the IPL T20 that concluded final month.
A united present by an in any other case faction-ridden Punjab Congress noticed it emerge because the main get together within the state, profitable seven out of 13 Lok Sabha seats.
Sidhu, who was thrice elected as a Lok Sabha MP from Amritsar on a BJP ticket, joined the Congress in January 2017, forward of Punjab Vidhan Sabha elections that 12 months. He contested on a Congress ticket within the 2017 Punjab elections and received from Amritsar East, the constituency his spouse Navjot Kaur Sidhu was elected from on a BJP ticket in 2012.
Sidhu has had very cordial ties with Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi. He was inducted within the council of ministers led by then Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh and held portfolios of tourism and cultural affairs and native authorities. In 2019, he was at loggerheads with Amarinder and resigned from the cupboard after he was divested of the important thing portfolios and was given energy and new and renewable vitality throughout a Cupboard reshuffle in June that 12 months. Sidhu didn’t assume cost of the brand new portfolios and resigned, retreating into political oblivion, earlier than resurfacing and launching a YouTube channel ‘Jittega Punjab’ in March 2020 and saying a “dharam yudh (a righteous conflict)” to get the state again on observe.
In July 2021, Sidhu was appointed Punjab Congress president and was one of many chief ministerial aspirants when the Congress requested Amarinder to step down following widespread resentment throughout the get together over his functioning. Ultimately, the Congress selected the get together’s Dalit face Charanjit Singh Channi to interchange Amarinder as CM and in addition declared Channi as its CM face within the 2022 Punjab elections.
After the ballot debacle in 2022 the place the Congress may win solely 18 seats within the 117-member Punjab Vidhan Sabha – an enormous slide from the 77 seats it had received within the 2017 elections – Sidhu, who misplaced from Amritsar East, was changed with Amrinder Singh Raja Warring as Punjab Congress chief in April 2022.
Whereas Warring and Congress MLA from Qadian Partap Singh Bajwa, who was appointed chief of the Opposition, labored in tandem, exhibiting unity, Sidhu emerged to carry parallel reveals of power after he got here out of jail after one-year imprisonment in April final 12 months in a street rage case relationship again to 1988.
In March this 12 months, almost two months forward of the Lok Sabha elections in Punjab, Sidhu had returned to cricket commentary.