CHANDIGARH: Days ahead of the
Punjab assembly elections, a woman, Suman
Toor
(70), who claims to be Punjab Congress president
Navjot
Singh Sidhu’s sister on Friday alleged that he did not give “due place” to his mother and sisters after the death of their father. The charge, however, was rejected by Sidhu’s wife Dr Navjot Kaur
Sidhu, claiming that her husband’s parents had separated in his childhood.
Addressing media persons, Toor, who is based in the United States said she was Sidhu’s sister from the same mother, Nirmal Bhagwant. Referring to an interview to an English magazine on November 15, 1987, she claimed that Sidhu had lied that his parents had a judicial separation when he was two years old. She alleged that it was only to deprive his mother and sisters of their “due place” in their family and “usurp family property”.
Suman Toor has accused the Punjab Congress leader of not giving “their mother due place” after the death of their father
Responding to the allegations, Dr Navjot said Toor did not disclose that when her mother got married to Sidhu’s father she already had two daughters. Later, the couple (Navjot’s parents) had separated when Sidhu was seven-year-old.
“When I got married, Navjot was his father’s only child and that’s what his will also said. His father was married to a lady who had two daughters from a previous marriage. She later took divorce and left the house with her daughters. Navjot obviously has nothing to do with them. Why is this thing brought up now?”
Senior Congress leader
Sunil Jakhar
tweeted: “Politics hits a new low in Punjab! It is despicable that to settle political scores even the most pious relation between a sister and brother has not been spared.”
Sidhu to file nomination todayPunjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu will file his nomination papers on Saturday at 11.15am. He is contesting to retain his Amritsar East constituency and will be pitted against Bikram Singh Majithia of the SAD.
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