Chandigarh : Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu has launched a veiled attack on NDA ally Shiromani Akali Dal for tying up with Indian National Lok Dal in Haryana to fight against BJP candidates. “Our allies hug us in Punjab, but in Haryana, they are wrestling with us (against BJP), which is unethical…,” Sidhu said at an election rally on Wednesday at Dabwali in Sirsa district in favour of BJP candidate Dev Kumar Sharma.
Sidhu, who had been vocal against Akali Dal leadership when he was an MP from Amritsar, used the occasion to launch a veiled attack on them. “They support a person who claims that he will take oath from jail…how can they (Akalis) support convicts who have been jailed,” Sidhu said in an apparent reference to the SAD fighting October 15 Haryana assembly polls in alliance with the INLD.
