Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday accepted the resignation of Navjot Singh Sidhu from the Cabinet.
“Captain Amarinder Singh has accepted Navjot Singh Sidhu’s one-line resignation and forwarded the same to the Governor,” said an official spokesperson.
The spokesperson added that the Chief Minister, who had been indisposed for the last two days since arrival from Delhi, forwarded the letter to Punjab Governor V.P.S. Badnore for formal acceptance.
Mr. Sidhu had sent his resignation on June 10 to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and tweeted the same more than a month later. Thereafter, he had tweeted that he would formally send his papers to the Chief Minister, in whose Cabinet he had been allocated the Power Ministry as part of a reshuffle post the Lok Sabha elections. He finally sent his resignation to the Chief Minister’s official residence.
