'If you put your own party into the witness box, like what Sidhu did, and treat them as wrongdoers, then how will the people of Punjab trust the party?'
The party wants to give time to Sidhu, but if he does not agree, then strict steps can be taken, the sources said.
Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala claimed that 78 party legislators had sought Singh's ouster in a letter to the central leadership and it was not party president Sonia Gandhi who made him quit.
Sidhu said 50-100 Congress leaders patted him on his back for the visit.
Sidhu's joining may come in the next few days which are considered auspicious.
Sidhu had promised that he would quit politics if his party president lost from Amethi, where he was contesting against Bharatiya Janata Party's Smriti Irani.
Navjot Singh Sidhu was on Wednesday sentenced to three years' imprisonment in a road rage death case.
The 52-year-old former cricketer and commentator who is also a popular television personality, was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in April.
Cricketer-turned politician Sidhu had courted controversy by hugging Pakistan Army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa during his visit to Pakistan for the swearing-in of Imran Khan as prime minister.
Harish Salve, senior advocate of the Supreme Court, argued that in a particular case a Karnataka legislator who had been convicted in a rape case had been allowed to contest elections by the Karnataka high court.
DSGMC chief Paramjit Singh Sarna, who defeated SAD for a second time in committee elections last month, also demanded in a statement that the SGPC, the top Sikh religious administration controlled by Badal's SAD, take action against Sidhu.
Former India opener Navjot Singh Sidhu walked out of India's 1996 cricket tour of England because he thought his captain, Mohammed Azharuddin, was constantly abusing him, a new book by former Board of Control for Cricket in India secretary Jaywant Lele claims.
Test cricket is like classical music which has survived since ancient ages. T20 cricket is like disco and rap which provides occasional pleasure in short bursts," said the former India cricketer.
For the last several weeks, both Channi and Sidhu have, directly or indirectly, made a case to be declared as the party's nominee for the top post.
Several Punjab Congress leaders, including Navjot Singh Sidhu, were on Thursday prevented from heading to Lakhimpur Kheri and were detained at a police station in Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
Today six months and one day have passed. Where is the chargesheet," Sidhu asked.
The top Congress leadership has not accepted Navjot Singh Sidhu's resignation and adopting a wait and watch policy.
Rohit Sharma's decision to 'opt out' of the ongoing fifth and final Test against Australia was bizarre as it sends wrong signals, said former opener Navjot Singh Sidhu.
The widening differences between Punjab Congress leaders -- Captain Amarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu intensified with their wives joining them in the conflict.
While the wrestlers braved tough weather conditions, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu demanded custodial interrogation of WFI President.
'The best among all,' says the former opener and BJP MP, 'was India's win over the Australians in the recent third Test against Australia in Perth, as it came on Australian soil.'
In his application, Sidhu said he was willing to surrender before the court since his case is now before the Supreme Court since the suspension of sentence.
A meeting of the Punjab Congress Legislative Party, which was slated for 11 am on Sunday, has been deferred, with party sources saying that a consensus is yet to be made on the name of the new CLP leader.
Controversial Punjabi singer Sidhu Mussewala, who joined the Congress sometime ago will contest from Mansa and actor Sonu Sood's sister Malvika Sood from Moga.
The 'intervention application' seeking review of the judgement was filed by advocate Lily Thomas, who submitted that the same was illegal.
The development has come amid a power tussle that polarised the ruling party in the state headed for elections in just about four months.
The high court on December 6 suspended his sentence till January 2007 to enable him to appeal in the apex court.
Replying to a question on the Enforcement Directorate raids at many places including at the premises of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi's nephew, Sidhu slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre over the raids and said the ED took action after nearly four years of the registration of the case.
Former India opener Navjot Singh Sidhu salutes VVS Laxman and the Indian team on their showing in the first Test against Australia at Mohali
'Every responsibility that he's shouldered has made him better. And to me, the best thing is, he's technically so sound that he makes it look so easy'
On Saturday, Amarinder Singh had accepted Sidhu's "one-line" resignation and forwarded it to Punjab Governor V P Singh Badnore who conveyed his acceptance of the same.
Sidhu and Amarinder Singh has been at loggerheads for the past some time, with the Amritsar (East) MLA recently attacking the CM over the desecration cases.
A day after Punjab Advocate General A P S Deol accused Navjot Singh Sidhu of spreading misinformation and obstructing him, the state Congress chief on Sunday hit back, alleging that the AG's 'earnest inaction' was subverting justice in the sacrilege and drug cases.
The Punjab tourism minister was fined Rs 1,000 for voluntarily causing hurt to a 65-year-old man in the 1998 case.
'People in Punjab put their opinion very strongly there and it looks like they will fight. But, there is nothing like that, and they find solutions to their problems'
Sidhu's meeting with Gandhi lasted for more than 30 minutes and had come at a time when the Congress has finalised half of its candidates for the coming assembly elections in Punjab.
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