Navjot Kaur Sidhu

Navjot Kaur Sidhu
Personal details
Political party Congress
Spouse(s) Navjot Singh Sidhu

Navjot Kaur Sidhu is a member of Punjab Legislative Assembly. She was elected to assembly in 2012 from Amritsar as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party.

She is appointed as Chief Parliamentary Secretary.[1] She is doctor by profession and served Punjab Health department before resigning in January 2012 to join politics.[2] She is married to former cricketer and BJP leader Navjot Singh Sidhu.[3] They have a son named Karan and daughter named Rabia.[4]

She announced her resignation from the BJP on her Facebook page, before launching an attack on Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in another post. Navjot Kaur, who along with her husband, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, had not been enjoying the best of relations with her party’s Punjab unit as well as the SAD leadership, posted a message on 01 April 2016. It said, “Finally I have resigned from the BJP. The burden is over.” [5]

Navjot Kaur exposed a senior state government medical officer running a private hospital in Mohali through a sting operation. .[6] The then central Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad invited Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu, to become a member of the National PNDT Committee for reforms in the Health Department.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Jalandhar Edition". Tribuneindia.com. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
  2. ↑ http://www.dayandnightnews.com/2012/01/navjot-kaur-sidhu-resigns-from-the-health-department/
  3. ↑ "Navjot Kaur Sidhu | Region in pics | Photos Punjab". hindustantimes.com. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
  4. ↑ http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print/796360.aspx
  5. ↑ http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/navjot-singh-sidhus-wife-quits-bjp/#sthash.VuZsdI5l.dpuf
  6. ↑ "Sidhu's wife pitted against another greenhorn in Amritsar (E)". Indian Express. 2012-01-21. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
  7. ↑ http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120818/jal.htm#3
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