No Problem With What Sidhu Says: Channi

Chandigarh : In an media Interview with India Today, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi said that he has no problem with whatever Punjab President Navjot Singh Sidhu says and he doesn’t mind to hear out his party’s President. He has no grievance even if Sidhu speaks to media first.

“Navjot Singh Sidhu is the president of Punjab Congress. Whatever he says, there is no harm in it. I don’t mind listening to him. Even if he speaks to the media before talking to me, there is no problem. For me, communication through the media also works,” Charanjit Singh Channi said on Wednesday.

Both, Punjab’s President and Punjab’s Chief Minister had differences since the latter took charge of the state. Sidhu even resigned from his post, but withdrew his resignation earlier this month.

While Navjot Singh Sidhu has objected to certain official appointments made by the Channi-led government, the chief minister has reportedly been unhappy about his “interference” in the government in the past.

When CM Channi was questioned on Punjab’s Debt he said, “I have been a student of economics, I understand the economy. I gave the people cheap electricity and put an end to expensive contracts.”

While Sidhu has always taken a dig at his party’s government first. Recently, Sidhu via his tweet stated that is the most indebted state in India, with debt accounting for 50 per cent of the state’s GDP.

Today Punjab is the most indebted state in India. Debt accounts for 50% of State GDP. Half of our expenditure is funded by expensive debt. Lets not derail from real issues to which every Punjabi & party worker demands solution, because there's #PunjabBeyond2022#HaqiqatPunjabDi

— Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) November 15, 2021

Speaking about upcoming elections in Punjab, Channi said that Public will decide who will win. He said, “I never thought I would be the chief minister. The party gave me this post. Again, it will be the party and the public that will decide. I don’t think about it.”

Charanjit Singh Channi added, “I am just trying to work for the common people. I have seen poverty very closely; I know the people’s problems. That’s why I try to work by living among the people. I am not working as the chief minister, but as a common man.”

The chief minister said that he has only a little time (before the Assembly election in 2022) but will try to do “maximum work”.

“I will work day and night for the benefit of the people and speak in their interests. Punjab is paramount for me,” he said.

Channi has shown support to farmers. CM Channi, on Wednesday announced the cancellation of FIRs registered by the Punjab police against the protesting farmers, told that the central government should now give up its “strategy of defaming farmers.”