Navjot Kaur Sidhu Explained

Spouse:Navjot Singh Sidhu
Otherparty:Bharatiya Janata Party
Office:Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly
Constituency:Amritsar East
Term Start:2012
Term End:8 October 2016
Predecessor:Gian Chand Kharbanda
Successor:Navjot Singh Sidhu
Nationality:Indian

Navjot Kaur Sidhu is an Indian politician and former member of Punjab Legislative Assembly. She was elected to assembly in 2012 from Amritsar East as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party.

She was appointed Chief Parliamentary Secretary.[1] She is doctor by profession and served in Govt. Rajindra Hospital, Patiala before resigning in January 2012 to enter politics.[2] She is married to former cricketer and Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu.[3] They have a son named Karan and daughter Rabia.[4]

Kaur announced her resignation from the BJP on her Facebook page, before launching an attack on Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in another post. Navjot Kaur, who along with her husband, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, had not been enjoying the best of relations with her party's Punjab unit as well as the SAD leadership, posted a message on 1 April 2016. It said, "Finally I have resigned from the BJP. The burden is over."[5]

Navjot Kaur exposed a senior state government medical officer running a private hospital in Mohali through a sting operation.[6] The then central Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad invited Sidhu, to become a member of the National PNDT Committee for reforms in the Health Department.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Jalandhar Edition . Tribuneindia.com . 2012-10-18.
  2. Web site: Punjab Poll 2012 : Navjot Kaur Sidhu resigns from the health department | Day & Night News . 21 October 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121029112640/http://www.dayandnightnews.com/2012/01/navjot-kaur-sidhu-resigns-from-the-health-department/ . 29 October 2012 . dead .
  3. Web site: Navjot Kaur Sidhu | Region in pics | Photos Punjab . Hindustan Times . 2012-10-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714145710/http://www.hindustantimes.com/photos-news/Photos-Punjab/18may/Article4-857752.aspx . 14 July 2014 . dmy-all .
  4. Web site: Interview Navjot & Navjot . Hindustan Times . 9 July 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131203190202/http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print/796360.aspx . 3 December 2013 . dead . 13 January 2012.
  5. Web site: 'The burden is over': Navjot Singh Sidhu's wife quits BJP on Facebook. 1 April 2016. 20 October 2018.
  6. Web site: Sidhu's wife pitted against another greenhorn in Amritsar (E) . Indian Express . 2012-01-21 . 2012-10-18.
  7. Web site: The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Jalandhar Edition. www.tribuneindia.com. 20 October 2018.