{"id":313051,"date":"2019-06-06T11:50:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313051"},"modified":"2019-06-06T11:50:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T11:50:14","slug":"navjot-sidhu-skips-cabinet-meet-says-cant-be-taken-for-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/navjot-sidhu-skips-cabinet-meet-says-cant-be-taken-for-granted\/","title":{"rendered":"Navjot Sidhu skips cabinet meet; says can&#8217;t be taken for granted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309514 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/sidhu-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"677\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/sidhu-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/sidhu.jpg 545w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The trouble between Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh and Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu intensified on Thursday when the latter skipped a meeting called by the chief minister and instead held a press conference at his residence to list his achievements regarding the performance of the party in urban areas in the recently concluded elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sidhu said he could not be taken for granted as he had been a performer his whole life. He claimed that he was being singled out for his performance in the recent polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the cabinet meeting was crucial as it was called for discussions on cabinet changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It was the second time, Navjot Singh Sidhu was not present in an official meeting chaired by Amarinder Singh. Last month too, Sidhu had stayed away from a meeting of lawmakers, ministers and newly elected MPs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Navjot Sidhu had accused the Chief Minister of being responsible for the denial of a ticket to his wife Navjot Kaur in recently concluded Lok Sabha Elections.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trouble between Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh and Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu intensified on Thursday when the latter skipped a meeting called by the chief minister and instead held a press conference at his residence to list his achievements regarding the performance of the party in urban areas in the recently concluded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2913,2014],"tags":[1507,11453],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313052,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313051\/revisions\/313052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}