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Sidhu meets Sonia, Priyanka

Punjab Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu met former Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi in Delhi today.

During his meeting, Sidhu reiterated his commitment to the party high command, according to an official release.

Sidhu also took blessings of Sonia Gandhi before “starting new innings” after the Supreme Court spared him a jail term in a 1988 road rage case.

Sidhu also called upon Priyanka Gandhi and said that she was an inspiration for him who stood by him in adverse times and was the driving force behind him joining the party.

Yesterday, the cricketer-turned-politician had met Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

Sidhu, who had joined Congress before the 2017 assembly polls in Punjab, had termed it as meeting between “a loyal soldier and his leader”.

The Supreme Court on May 15 convicted Sidhu for voluntarily causing hurt to a 65-year-old man but spared him a jail term in the 1988 road rage case and imposed a Rs 1,000 fine on him.

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Yeddyurappa govt will fulfil people’s aspirations: Shah

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BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday described the swearing-in of B S Yeddyurappa as the chief minister of the southern Indian state of Karnataka a “victory of every Kannadiga” who voted to “uproot the corrupt and divisive politics” of the Congress.

In a tweet, he also expressed hope that the new BJP government in the state under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s guidance will fulfil people’s aspirations.

Shah’s wish came amid hectic efforts by the saffron party to secure the support of some MLAs from rivals Congress and Janata Dal-Secular(JD-S) as its strength of 104 is still eight short of the majority mark of 112 in the 224-member state Assembly.

The Congress and JD(S), which have already announced post-poll tie-up, have won 78 and 37 seats respectively.

“Congrats to B S Yeddyurappa ji for being sworn in as the CM of Karnataka. This is the victory of every Kannadiga who voted to uproot the corrupt & divisive politics of Congress. I am sure the new govt under the guidance of PM Narendra Modi will fulfil the aspirations of the people,” the BJP chief tweeted.

The state governor has given Yeddyurappa 15 days to prove his majority in the Assembly, a decision which the Congress decried as “murder of democracy”.

Hitting back, Shah said democracy was murdered the moment “desperate” Congress made an “opportunist” offer to the JD(S) to form the government in the state for “petty political gains”.

Yeddyurappa was on Thursday sworn in as the chief minister of Karnataka for a second time, after an overnight high-voltage legal battle in the Supreme Court which refused to stay his swearing-in.

The apex court, which commenced the hearing at 2.11 AM and ended at 5.28 AM, however made it clear that the swearing-in and the government formation in the state would be subject to the final outcome of the case before it.

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