Overview
- Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring announced her immediate suspension, and the one-line order did not cite a reason.
- Navjot Kaur Sidhu had said the person who brings a ₹500 crore suitcase becomes chief minister, then later posted that her comment was twisted and that the party never demanded money from her family.
- BJP figures including Sudhanshu Trivedi and Tarun Chugh called the allegation proof of institutionalised corruption, while AAP leaders said it exposed the Congress’s internal workings.
- Senior Congress leaders such as Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and Partap Singh Bajwa condemned her remarks, and Karnataka deputy chief minister D K Shivakumar dismissed the claim outright.
- She linked Navjot Singh Sidhu’s political return to being named the party’s CM face for 2027, and after the suspension she alleged a ₹10 crore payment for a Tarn Taran ticket, a charge the candidate Karanbir Singh Burj publicly denied.