Congress chief Navjot Sidhu on Tuesday hit out on the Aam Aadmi Party – which recorded a thumping win in final month’s Punjab election to defeat the ruling Congress – and mentioned 4 of its 5 picks for the Rajya Sabha have been ‘new batteries for distant management in Delhi ‘.

The jibe was a reference to AAP boss Arvind Kejriwal amid claims by his rivals that he intends to ‘management’ the brand new Punjab authorities from the nationwide capital.

Sidhu, who lower than every week in the past congratulated the AAP’s Bhagwant Mann for changing into chief minister – tweeted: “New batteries for the Delhi remote control, it’s blinking… Harbhajan is an exception, the rest are batteries and betrayal of Punjab!.”

The AAP has named ex-cricketer Harbhajan Singh as a decide for a Rajya Sabha MP put up. The others are Lovely Professional University founder Ashok Mittal, the partys’ Delhi MLA, Raghav Chadha; Sandeep Pathak, a college member at IIT-Delhi; and industrialist Sanjeev Arora.

Elections for 13 Rajya Sabha vacancies can be held on March 31.

Since the bulletins, nevertheless, the AAP has confronted warmth from the opposition, which has accused it of ‘dishonest’ folks by nominating ‘non-Punjabis’ and ‘outsiders’.

“We welcome Harbhajan Singh’s name, but not the other names. We will not tolerate anybody from outside Punjab,” the Congress’ Sukhpal Singh Khaira mentioned.

He referred to as the AAP’s picks ‘insupportable’.

A day after the AAP was declared winner of the Punjab election, Sidhu had declared the end result ‘the voice of God’ and mentioned he ‘humbly settle for(s) the mandate of the folks of Punjab’.

The AAP claimed a large win over the Congress within the 2022 Punjab election.

The Congress received simply 18 of 117 seats because it failed to beat a management disaster instigated by Sidhu and his feud with ex-chief ministers Amarinder Singh and Charanjit Channi.