Former Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu walked out of Patiala jail after 10 months of rigorous imprisonment within the 1988 street rage case. As quickly as he walked out of the jail amid cheers from his supporters who have been ready exterior the jail since midday for the discharge of the Congress chief, he mentioned the BJP is stoking violence in Punjab. “There is no such thing as democracy right now. A conspiracy is being hatched to bring President’e Rule in Punjab. Minorities are being targetted. If you try to weaken Punjab, you will become weak,” Sidhu mentioned. Read | Navjot Sidhu meets Congress leaders in Patiala jail, plans post-release strategy

“Whenever there is a dictatorship in the country, a revolution followed. And today I can say thumping my chest that the name of that revolution is Rahul Gandhi. Rahul Gandhi will shake the government from its roots,” Navjot Singh Sidhu mentioned.

“See what happened today. I was supposed to be released around noon, but they delayed it because they were waiting for the Congress supporters, the media to leave,” Sidhu mentioned. “There is no democracy today. Democracy is in shackles. If Bhagwant Mann is listening to me, I want to tell him also that there is a concerted effort to hurt Punjab,” Sidhu mentioned.

“Punjab is the shield of this country. But they are trying to destroy this shield. Wherever there is the majority, there is no democracy, there is a conspiracy by the Centre. They create law and order problems and then they clamp down and say peace has come,” Sidhu mentioned in his fiery speech simply after his launch.

All businesses have change into slaves and rubber stamps and solely take heed to 4-6 folks, Sidhu mentioned attacking the Centre. “I am not scared of death because what I am doing is not for my family, but for the next generation of Punjab,” Sidhu mentioned.

“History is witness that no one has been in jail even for a week for IPC 323. But why did Sidhu then go to jail? Because my predecessors wrote the Constitution and I respect that,” Sidhu mentioned.

Sidhu was jailed on May 20 in 2022 within the street rage case during which 65-year-old Gurnam Singh died in 1988. He was launched a couple of weeks early because of his good conduct throughout imprisonment. His spouse and former MLA Dr Navjot Kaur was identified with most cancers and was operated when Sidhu was in jail.