Finally, Navjot Singh Sidhu gets an audience with Rahul Gandhi

NEW DELHI: Sulking Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, who is at loggerheads with Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh, on Wednesday finally got an audience with former party president Rahul Gandhi.
Earlier in the day, Sidhu had held a meeting with Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi. The two leaders are learnt to have discussed the issue of revamp in the Punjab unit ahead of assembly polls.
Yesterday, Rahul Gandhi had denied any scheduled meeting with the former cricketer-turned-politician and said 'no meeting with Sidhu' to media people waiting outside his residence.

Ironically, Rahul Gandhi did not meet Amarinder Singh, who was also in the national capital a few days ago to meet senior party leaders over the crisis in state unit.
Sidhu has raised a banner of revolt against Amarinder Singh and has gone public with his grievances, much to the discomfort of the Congress.
Sidhu had resigned from the Punjab Cabinet after he was divested of the local bodies portfolio in 2019.
He has attacked the chief minister over the alleged delay in justice in the 2015 incidents of sacrilege and subsequent police firing.
Chief minister Amarinder Singh has slammed Sidhu for continuously attacking him over the sacrilege issue and termed the former's outbursts "total indiscipline".
The Congress is trying to bring the warring factions on one platform ahead of the assembly elections in the state next year.
Rahul Gandhi has been meeting senior leaders and elected representatives from the state ahead of the anticipated revamp in the state unit to end factionalism in the party.
(With inputs from agencies)