Navjot Singh Sidhu

Navjot​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ Singh Sidhu came into this world on 20th October 1963 in Patiala, Punjab. After that, he made his name as a professional cricketer and was extensively in the limelight as a representative of India in Test matches and One Day Internationals. After the cricket venture, he ventured and developed a career in television commentary, entertainment, and public speaking, hence gaining more and more popularity and people’s love.

Sidhu ventured into electoral politics with his entrance in 2004. He stood for election in the 2004 Lok Sabha from Amritsar on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket and won his first parliamentary term. After two years 2006, he gave up the Lok Sabha seat due to a manslaughter case against him. But in 2009, he was re-elected to the Lok Sabha, the winning of his Congress opponent Surinder Singla by a large margin of 77626 votes. In 2014, he did not run. In 2016, the centre nominated him to the Rajya Sabha, but he resigned from the seat in July of the same year. Later in 2016, he left the BJP and started a political party called Awaz e Punjab before he formally joined the Indian National Congress in January 2017.

In the Punjab Assembly election of 2017, he stood for election in Amritsar East and won by a huge majority of over forty thousand votes. He became Minister of Tourism, Cultural Affairs and Museums in the Punjab government. Alongside, He kept his media and public discourse presence alive. He has been an influential figure within the Congress party and a vocal person in Punjab politics.

He has planned to step down from the active electoral contests, but still, he is being talked about as a possible political comeback due to his wife's statements, which have taken most of the renewed public attention in ​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌2025.