Badal ready to leave any SAD seat for Sidhu

Patiala, Dec 7: SAD president Prakash Singh Badal today said his party was ready to leave any assembly seat for the former BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu in the coming elections.

Maintaining that his political career will not be in anyway jeopardised by yesterday's High Court sentence against him in a road rage death case, Mr Badal declined to comment on the verdict of High Court.

''However, I feel that Sidhu will get sympathy from it and SAD was ready to leave any seat for Sidhu in coming Punjab assembly elections but the decision will be taken by BJP high command for this,'' he said.

Mr Badal said that when Sidhu gets a stay from Supreme Court, there will be no hurdle for him to contest elections.

A star BJP politician, Sidhu's name had been doing rounds in political circles as a possible candidate to be pitted against Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh in Patiala, which happens to be the hometown of both.

The assembly constituency is usually contested by the SAD for the BJP-SAD alliance.

UNI

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