{"id":2851,"date":"2021-09-28T13:47:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2021-09-28T14:09:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T14:09:39","slug":"indian-politician-navjot-singh-sidhu-steps-down-as-punjab-pradesh-congress-committee-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/indian-politician-navjot-singh-sidhu-steps-down-as-punjab-pradesh-congress-committee-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian politician Navjot Singh Sidhu steps down as Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Indian politician and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu has resigned from the post of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee&#8217;s president.<br \/>\nSidhu shared a copy of his resignation letter, sent to Indian National Congress (INC) President Sonia Gandhi, on his official Twitter account.<br \/>\nAccording to Sidhu\u2019s letter, he resigned &#8220;for the future and welfare of the Indian Punjab.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u201cThe collapse of a man\u2019s character stems from the compromise corner, I can never compromise on Punjab\u2019s future and the agenda for the welfare of Punjab. Therefore, I hereby resign as the President of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee,\u201d the letter reads.<br \/>\nHowever, Sidhu has stated in the letter that he will \u201ccontinue to serve\u201d the party.<br \/>\nAs per the reports of Indian media, some members of the INC maintain that the reason behind Sidhu\u2019s resignation is his disappointment over why his name wasn\u2019t suggested for the post of Punjab chief minister after the resignation of the former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh.<br \/>\nThe reports also suggest that Sidhu will possibly be made Punjab\u2019s chief minister this month.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/indian-premier-league-2021-fresh-updates-regarding-highest-paid-players.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indian Premier League 2021: Fresh updates regarding highest paid players<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L5wdRql5t3\">pic.twitter.com\/L5wdRql5t3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sherryontopp\/status\/1442783782868717577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Indian politician and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu has resigned from the post of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee&#8217;s president. Sidhu shared a copy of his resignation letter, sent to Indian National Congress (INC) President Sonia Gandhi, on his official Twitter account. According to Sidhu\u2019s letter, he resigned &#8220;for the future and welfare of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[1205,438],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-pm-modi","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}