New Delhi: He promised a sterling performance in the byelections to the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat in the face of very adverse circumstances following his conviction in a 1989 road-rage case, which had led to his resignation from the same Lok Sabha seat on December 1.
And cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu kept his word by Tuesday by winning the bypolls by a huge margin. The BJP candidate defeated his nearest rival, state Finance Minister Surinder Singla of the Congress, by 77,626 votes.
Singla had earlier represented Bathinda Assembly constituency and his party fielded him against Sidhu in the parliamentary bypolls held along with the Assembly elections on February 13.
Immediately after the poll results, Sidhu paid obeisance at the Harmandar Sahib (Golden Temple) on Tuesday evening. Talking to journalists, he said the defeat of the Congress in the Assembly polls reflected the discontentment among the masses with the policies of the party.
(With PTI inputs)
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