'Can't help if Sidhu doesn't want to do his job'
July 15, 2019 18:36
Hours after Navjot Singh Sidhu sent his resignation from Punjab Cabinet to the chief minister, Amarinder Singh said if the cricketer-turned politician did not want to do his job, there was nothing he could do about it.
The minister, who was given the power department last month in a reshuffle of the state cabinet, should have accepted his new portfolio instead of shunning work in the middle of the crucial paddy season, Singh told reporters in Delhi.
There has to be some discipline in the government if it is to function effectively, the chief minister added.
Sidhu has announced his resignation as Punjab Cabinet minister, making public his June 10 resignation letter sent to then Congress president Rahul Gandhi. On Monday, a day after he went public with his decision, he sent the letter to Singh.
The former cricketer resigned in the wake of his continued run-ins with the chief minister, who had changed his portfolio from Local Government to Power.
Unhappy, Sidhu did not assume charge of the new department.
"If Sidhu doesn't want to do the job, there is nothing I can do about it," Singh said, questioning how a soldier can refuse a job assigned by the General.
"I thought power is an important thing for Punjab, one of our most important thing, so I gave it to Sidhu but he did not want it. I said once a decision has been taken, you can't say I will take this and I will not take that," the chief minister said.
He wondered why Sidhu was the only person unhappy over the change when other ministers have taken charge of their new departments.
-- PTI
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