‘Won’t marry till papa wins’: Navjot Singh Sidhu’s daughter Rabia Sidhu slams Charanjit Singh Channi, says ‘check his accounts, you will find Rs 133 cr’

Rabia Sidhu&nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspANI

Amritsar: Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu’s daughter Rabia Sidhu Thursday campaigned for her father in Amritsar (East) constituency ahead of the Punjab Assembly Election on February 20. Speaking to reporters while campaigning, Rabia hit out at Congress CM candidate and incumbent Chief Minister Charanjith Singh Channi. 

She doubted whether Channi, as had been claimed, was poor and stated that his accounts should be checked. 

“Is Channi really poor? Check his bank accounts, more than Rs 133 crore will be found,” she claimed. 

Rabia seemed visibly upset over her father being ignored for being named as the Congress’s CM candidate for Punjab Election 2022. 

“Maybe they (high command) had some compulsion. But you can’t stop an honest man for long. Dishonest man has to eventually stop,” she said. 

“He (Sidhu) has been working for Punjab for the last 14 years, he has been creating a new model for the state. He should be respected,” Rabia said. She added that there was no comparison between her father and other state party leaders, in an apparent dig at Channi. 

“The victory will be of truth,” she said. 

Rabia said Punjab was in a bad situation and that only one person – her father – can save it. She further alleged that her father’s political opponents and others were trying to ensure he remains in the background. 

“Everyone’s trying to remove him including the drug mafia and the sand mafia. They won’t ever let an honest person take charge,” she alleged. 

Rabia said Sidhu feels hurt by the situation that Punjab is in today. 

Rabia even reiterated that she had said she would not get married till her papa wins. 

Rabia also hit out at SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who is contesting against her father Navjot Singh Sidhu from Amritsar (East). Majithia is the brother-in-law of Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal. 

“Majithia uncle came to my father to learn politics,” she said, adding that one has to choose – “on one side there are drugs and on the other side, there is development, jobs, and education.” 

She also claimed that in Majithia, the Assembly constituency which Bikram Majithia had represented earlier in the Punjab Assembly, drugs could be bought from grocery stores for as low as Rs 20.  

“People will not sell themselves for money, they will vote for truth and only truth,” she was quoted as saying.