Navjot Kaur Sidhu, wife of cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Sidhu, has kicked up a political storm in Punjab by alleging that “a briefcase full of Rs 500 crore” is required to become Chief Minister in the state, something she said her husband could not pay.

The former MLA was speaking to mediapersons on Saturday evening after meeting Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria here on several issues, including the “deteriorating” law and order situation in the state.

While she did not name any party while making the Rs 500-crore remark, she said Sidhu would return to active politics in the Congress only if he was made the party’s chief ministerial face in Punjab. Pointing to infighting within the party, she said there were “already five chief ministerial faces” in the Congress who, she claimed

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