Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday said he and former minister Navjot Singh Sidhu had some “simple talks”, a day after both leaders met over lunch. Singh on Wednesday met Sidhu at the former’s residence, triggering speculation that the cricketer-turned-politician may be re-inducted into the state cabinet.
The chief minister on Thursday expressed hope that he and Sidhu will continue to have cordial meetings like the one they had on Wednesday, where they spoke a lot about cricket, apart from a host of other things. Both were in a good mood during the one-hour luncheon, to which Singh had invited the former cricketer after he expressed an interest in meeting him, Singh said in a statement here.
“I was satisfied and happy with the meeting, and so was Sidhu,” he said. “We did not make any plans for Punjab or India or the world. We just had some simple talks, during which Sidhu shared a lot of his cricketing experience,” Singh said, adding that unfortunately, the…
