Sidhu in Gadkari’s team

Member of Parliament (MP) from Amritsar Navjot Singh Sidhu is among the 15 national secretaries appointed by BJP national president Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday. With his elevation,Sidhu will find himself in a greater organisational responsibility as part of the core team of the party. The Indian Express had on January 20 this year reported Sidhu’s likely prospects of elevation to the plum post.

Navjot Sidhu’s new political assignment comes as a breather for him,given that his equation with the BJP state leadership headed by Rajinder Bhandari,who relinquished charge last month,has been persistently waning. At one point,Sidhu even contemplated to quit as an MP.

Sidhu now finds himself on this post despite the fact that his adversaries in the saffron party have been promulgating Sidhu as a non-cadre leader without a Sangh background. Sidhu,a three-time MP from Amritsar,was the lone legislator from the BJP to win the Lok Sabha seat last year.