‘Completely disconnected’: Navjot Kaur Sidhu now trains guns on Rahul, calls Modi ‘very spiritual’

Amritsar: Expelled Congress functionary Navjot Kaur Sidhu on Tuesday hit out at Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi, calling him "completely disconnected from ground realities", even as she heaped praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Navjot Kaur, wife of former Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, has already announced she would contest as an independent candidate from Amritsar East. In spite of this, she called Modi a "very spiritual person" — of what looked like her bid to cozy up to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Navjot Singh Sidhu remains in the Congress but holds no post and has been politically inactive; he has neither resigned nor been expelled.In a TV interview, Navjot Kaur questioned Rahul's very right to lead. "Rahul Gandhi talks sense, but what he does and what he says are worlds apart," she said, adding that the crux of her fury lay in an 8-month "ghosting" by the leadership. "I was asking for a meeting for eight months to tell him that his appointees are not doing justice to Punjab. Your party is already sold, what tickets are you talking about? Your tickets have already been sold under your nose," she claimed.While leaning heavily into her professional and financial background, she said she was earning Rs 40 lakh a month as a gynaecologist. "My husband earns nearly Rs 25 lakh a day. We gave that up for a Rs 1.5 lakh govt salary," she said. She alleged that before the 2017 assembly elections, she and her husband were promised the post of a deputy chief minister and seven departments, besides her as an MP. "What we received was local bodies and tourism, and even those were expected to be run by the chief minister," she added.She claimed that Gandhi was surrounded by a "corrupt inner circle" that blocked "honest voices". "If you don't have time for honesty, then I am sorry—you don't deserve that chair. I refuse to stay in a party where communication with my own leader is an impossible luxury," she said."He has not come to a level where he thinks every one is equal and you can talk to him and you can converse with him. He is still floating in the Gandhi mind and family, where he has no time to listen to people who are actually his well-wishers."