Chandigarh, January 27 : Two days after she asked her party Congress for a ticket to stand for elections for Chandigarh, Najvot Kaur Sidhu justified her demand on Sunday saying she “wasn’t a parachute candidate”.
Navjot Kaur claimed she spent her childhood in the city and that her demand for a ticket from the women’s quota was based on her life’s work.
The party has an internal democracy and anyone could apply for the ticket, she said. On being asked what she thought of possible pushback from Congress leader Pawan Kumar Bansal, a four-time time Congress MP from Chandigarh—she said she would happily accept the party’s choice.
“Bansal ji aur mein hamsafar hai yadi muhje ticket milti hai to Bansal Ji ke bager mein hiloogi bhi nahi. Unhe mere liye fight karna hi pedega. Yadi unhe ticket milti hai ho mein unke sath hun (Mr Bansal and I are fellow travellers. Should I be chosen, I wouldn’t take any decisions without consulting him first. He would have to campaign for me. Likewise, should he be the party’s choice, I will stand with him),” Kaur, a former BJP MLA, said.
On Saturday, at a Republic Day function in Dhanas, Kaur accused Chandigarh’s sitting MP Kirron Kher of doing nothing for the city in the last five years.
“There is no development in the city. As MP, she could have started projects like film city, or another university,” she said, claiming that lack of opportunities in the city was what led to “brain drain” of the city’s youth.
