Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu again fuelled speculations of him joining the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). On Tuesday, with a cryptic tweet, he triggered the speculation that he may be shifting allegiance towards AAP. Mr Sidhu wrote, “AAP had always “recognised my vision and work for Punjab” and knows who is really fighting for the state.” Raising speculation that he is warming up to Arvind Kejriwal’s party, he also wrote, “Our opposition AAP has always recognised my vision and work for Punjab. Be it before 2017- Beadbi, drugs, farmers’ issues, corruption and power crisis faced by people of Punjab, raised by me or today as I present ‘Punjab Model’. It is clear they know – who is really fighting for Punjab.”

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Along with the tweet, Navjot Sidhu also attached a video. The video showed AAP leader Sanjay Singh praising the Congress leader and his wife for raising their voice against issues in the state, such as the drug mafia and “corruption” during the previous SAD-BJP regime.

Sidhu’s tweet came on the day poll strategist Prashant Kishor met former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, along with Priyanka Gandhi. On the same day, the poll strategist and I-PAC chief also met KC Venugopal, and Harish Rawat, the in-charge of Punjab affairs.

A day before, the opposition parties in Punjab, AAP & Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) accused Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh-led government of accepting “funds” for the Congress from the managements of the three private power plants functioning in the state. Addressing Sidhu, AAP state Chief Bhagwant Mann had asked him to tweet on the issue. Mann had said, “I appeal to Navjot Sidhu to tweet on this issue as well as he has been tweeting every day on PPAs.”

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Sidhu is currently embroiled in a feud and power rivalry with Captain Amarinder Singh. He said that the opposition parties cannot escape his “pro-people agenda.” The cricketer-turned-politician said, “If the Opposition dares to question me, yet they cannot escape my Pro-People Agenda. This means they have resigned to their fate!!”

Sidhu has been raising power supply-related issues through social media. He had demanded that a white paper on PPAs signed during the previous SAD-BJP regime be released to make the Badals “accountable” to the people for these “corrupt agreements”.

Earlier, Navjot Sidhu had also blamed the state government for giving “unreasonable and exuberant profits to private thermal plants”.