Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh today said BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu's resignation from Rajya Sabha was a "foregone conclusion" as he had been left with "little option".
"Pushed to the wall by the Akalis and his own party, the BJP, maintaining a conniving silence, Sidhu was left with little option other than resigning," he said.
"He (Sidhu) may have resigned from Rajya Sabha today, but we all know he had virtually withdrawn from active politics for a long time and was left with only a token presence in the BJP," he said, adding that hence, his resignation from Rajya Sabha and maybe even from the BJP sooner or later, does not come as a surprise.
The senior Congress leader said given the treatment meted out to him and his wife by the Akalis, the BJP's alliance partner, Sidhu's continuance within the party (BJP) defied all logic.
Sidhu today resigned from Rajya Sabha, only about three months after his nomination by the government, amidst speculation that he could join Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and be its face in the 2017 Punjab Assembly polls.
The cricketer-turned-politician and his wife Navjot Kaur, the Chief Parliamentary Secretary in Punjab, shared an uneasy relationship with the Akali leadership and had openly attacked it on governance issues in the past.
