Talks are going on with Navjot Sidhu: AAP

October 27, 2016 20:02

Talks between former BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu and Aam Aadmi Party are going on, AAP senior leader Sanjay Singh said in Chandigarh today, even as suspense continued over which way the cricketer-turned-politician would finally go after Congress recently maintained that it had no reservation if he joins the outfit "unconditionally".

"Talks are going on with Sidhu. There is no denying this. Talks have been underway for the past 4-5 days," Singh told reporters here.

Sources said Sidhu held a meeting with AAP's co-in-charge and Delhi Minister Arvind Kejriwal's confidante Durgesh Pathak here late last night.

They said former BJP MP is pushing for the deputy chief minister's post and added that the bone of contention was also some 7-8 seats which Sidhu has demanded, including seats for Hockey Olympian Pargat Singh and two Independent legislators, Balwinder Singh Bains and Simarjit Singh Bains.

They also indicated that a section in the party favoured an alliance with Sidhu's outfit Aawaz-e-Punjab rather than the former BJP MP joining AAP.

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