Navjot Singh Sidhu is a natural showman with the gift of the gab

With every candidate wanting him to campaign in his constituency, Sidhu was a man on the go

Navjot Singh Sidhu is “on the brink” of losing his voice. Incredulous as it sounded, the press statement from the Punjab government on December 6 was unambiguous.

The 55-year-old Punjab minister for local government, tourism and cultural affairs had been campaigning for the Congress for 17 days nonstop. He had addressed 70 public meetings, back to back, in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Rajasthan. A natural showman with the gift of the gab, the turbanator had been quite a crowd puller. Such was the intensity of his speeches that his vocal cords finally protested. Having injured them, he had