Navjot Singh Sidhu keeps up attack on Modi, says don't want to be silent spectator

CHANDIGARH: Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu said Wednesday he criticises Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP because he does not want the coming generations to say he was a silent spectator when the country was being "destroyed".

Sidhu, who has been served a show-cause notice by the Election Commission for describing the prime minister as a "thief" in his speech in Ahmedabad, urged people to vote out the Modi government in the Lok Sabha election under way.

He also blamed Modi for the EC notice, which he has to reply by Thursday evening.

"I have been sent the notice by Modi sahab," the cricketer-turned-politician said at an election rally in Haryana's



Ambala.

He claimed if Modi returns as prime minister, "the country will be finished".

"I speak against BJP because coming generations should not say that when the country was being destroyed, Sidhu was watching like a silent spectator," Sidhu said.

During the campaign, Sidhu, a former BJP leader who joined the Congress in January 2017, has ramped up his criticism of the saffron party and the prime minister.

The Commission had banned Sidhu from campaigning for 72 hours last month for his remarks that the election panel deemed were in violation of the poll code.

On Wednesday, Sidhu also addressed a rally in Chandigarh.