Amritsar, Jan. 29 (PTI): Filing nomination from the Amritsar East seat, Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Saturday dared his bete noire Amarinder Singh to leave Patiala and take on him.
He also challenged Shiromani Akali Dal’s Bikram Singh Majithia to fight only from the Amritsar East seat and leave the Majitha assembly constituency.
Apart from the Majitha seat, Majithia, a former Punjab minister, has also entered the fray from Amritsar East from where Sidhu is seeking re-election.
“If you have so much guts and have faith in people then leave Majitha and fight from one seat here. Do you have the guts?” Sidhu dared while interacting with reporters after filing his nomination.
About former chief minister Amarinder Singh’s comment that he would not let Sidhu win, the Punjab Congress president dared him to leave Patiala and contest from Amritsar East.
“Come to Amritsar,” Sidhu said.
Targeting the Akalis, he alleged that they are the people who “looted” Punjab.
Sidhu also hit out at his political opponents for bringing up the reference of his mother, who died over 30 years ago, and accused them of playing dirty politics over it.
“They stooped so low that they brought my mother into it to play politics. I ask them to prove the allegation. You want to bring my mother, who died 35 years ago, for her testimony.”