Tag: Lobbying

Punjab Lok Congress President and former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday revealed that Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan and his close associates lobbied for Navjot Singh Sidhu's appointment as a minister when the party won a landslide victory in 2017. According to the captain, Imran Khan living in Pakistan and a very close friend of Navjot had recommended in writing to make Sidhu a minister in a message sent to him on the phone. Since I had never met Imran Khan or knew him personally, I was not only surprised to see such a message soon after the Congress's victory in Punjab, but I was also shocked that a person should be given the post of a state minister. To get it, how the Prime Minister of another country and his close ones are putting pressure. During an...