Bikram Singh Majithia, contesting Amritsar East for Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), has called Navjot Singh Sidhu a “joker.”
“He is a joker, will remain a joker and will treat him as a joker. So, I have full confidence that people will support and vote for me,” said Majithia to Republic TV.
“A man who has never been available…I don’t need a character certificate least of all from Sidhu who is good for nothing, has changed parties. changed political godfathers at the drop of the hat,” Majithia further added.
Majithia is in poll fray from Amritsar East for the first time though he is a three-time MLA from Majithia.
“The biggest opportunist who can go to Pakistan and forget about our martyrs,” he added.
Amritsar East is perceived as a stronghold of the Punjab Congress president who defeated his nearest opponent – BJP’s Rakesh Kumar Honey, from here in the previous assembly election with a margin of 42,809 votes. In the 2012 Assembly polls, his wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu had secured victory in this constituency on a BJP ticket. In a key development on January 27, BJP gave a ticket to retired IAS officer Jagmohan Singh Raju from this seat.
