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Edited By: Pathikrit Sen Gupta
Final Up to date: January 25, 2023, 00:15 IST
It’s being speculated that Sidhu may very well be amongst 50 prisoners more likely to be given particular remission below the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’. File pic/PTI
Plans are being chalked out regardless of even his closest aide nonetheless being unclear about his launch from jail with some indicating that any readability would come solely on January 26
Although uncertainty shrouds the untimely launch of Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu from Patiala jail the place he’s serving a one-year sentence in a highway rage case, his supporters on Tuesday put up posters and banners in Ludhiana and another locations to welcome the previous Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief upon his liberating.
Whereas hailing him as “protector of Punjab”, Sidhu’s supporters appear to have gone on an overdrive to make sure that his launch from jail turns into a serious political occasion.
Former MLA Rajinder Singh, son of senior Congress chief Lal Singh, has requested individuals to assemble exterior the Patiala jail on January 26 to welcome the cricketer-turned-politician.
The plans are being chalked out regardless of even his closest aide nonetheless being unclear about his launch with some indicating that any readability would come solely on January 26.
Taking to Twitter, Surinder Dalla, media adviser to the previous PPCC chief, wrote, “The guard of Punjab, Punjabi and Punjabiyat, Navjot Singh Sidhu, is coming quickly.” He additionally shared an image of Sidhu’s poster.
Nonetheless, there is no such thing as a official phrase on Sidhu’s launch from chief minister Bhagwant Mann, who additionally holds the jail portfolio.
It’s being speculated that Sidhu may very well be amongst 50 prisoners more likely to be given particular remission below the “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav”. They have been to be launched in three phases: August 15, 2022, January 26, 2023, and August 15, 2023.
Sidhu is serving a one-year sentence and has accomplished about 68 per cent of this in jail with out parole or furlough.
Senior social gathering leaders are holding their fingers crossed and are desisting from issuing a press release on Sidhu’s launch.
With out referring to Sidhu, chief of opposition Partap Singh Bajwa had on Monday sought a clarification from Mann on whether or not the cupboard had accepted the remission and forwarded the listing of Punjab prisoners.
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