Chandigarh: Former Congress leader Navjot Kaur Sidhu has launched a sharp attack on Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of being “completely disconnected from ground realities” and failing to address internal corruption in the Punjab unit of the party.
Speaking in Coimbatore, Sidhu alleged that Gandhi’s inaction was weakening the Congress in Punjab. She claimed that members of his inner circle were busy “selling tickets” while he remained unaware of the situation.
“Rahul Gandhi speaks well. He talks about meaningful issues. But what he says and what he does are very different,” Sidhu said.
She further claimed that for the past eight months she had been seeking time to brief Gandhi about the state of affairs in Punjab. “I have been asking for a meeting to tell him that the person appointed by him in Punjab is not doing justice to the state and is destroying the Congress. I only wanted to inform him that the party is collapsing in Punjab. Tickets have already been sold,” she alleged.
Sidhu’s remarks come amid ongoing efforts within the Punjab Congress to strengthen the organisation ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections. The party has not issued an immediate response to her allegations.
