Discipline is for everyone, cannot be one thing for few and something else for rest: Sidhu

We will follow it, said Sidhu.He said the Congress cannot stand back on its feet without the workers, who are the partys foundation.Sidhu further said it is a fight of ideology for the resurrection of Punjab.When asked whether he will continue to hold his rallies, he said that his public meeting programmes were scheduled before Yadavs visit to the state.I spoke to him and told him that my programmes were fixed beforehand.

Amid calls from within the party for disciplinary action against him for holding separate rallies, Congress leader Navjot Singh met party's Punjab in-charge Devender Yadav on Thursday and said “discipline” should not imply different things for different people.

Yadav, who is a member of the AICC, was on a three-day visit to the state.

''I told Yadav that discipline is for everyone. It cannot be one thing for a few and something else for rest of the people,'' Sidhu said after the meeting.

Earlier in the day, Sidhu posted a cryptic video message on social media against people who make “compromises”.

''Kaudi Kaudi bikey hue log, samjhauta karke ghutno pe tike hue log. Bargad ki baat karte hain, gamle me uge hue log,'' the cricketer-turned-politician said.

The message targets people who have “sold themselves for pennies”, made compromises, and have been “brought to their knees”.

“People who grew up in flower pots talk about the banyan tree,” it said.

When asked for whom his post on X was meant, he said the ''public knows everything''.

After many Congress leaders sought action against Sidhu for holding rallies without consulting the state unit, Yadav had on December 9 said that he would speak to the former cricketer.

Sidhu asserted it is everyone's responsibility to take the party's ideology to the people.

He said that he was going to the people to propagate the Congress' ideology and connect the workers with the party's inheritance.

''In a democracy, the people are the biggest strength and it is the duty of everyone to take the Congress ideology and consider the high command supreme. We will follow it,'' said Sidhu.

He said the Congress cannot stand back on its feet without the workers, who are the party's foundation.

Sidhu further said it is a fight of ideology for the resurrection of Punjab.

When asked whether he will continue to hold his rallies, he said that his public meeting programmes were scheduled before Yadav's visit to the state.

''I spoke to him and told him that my programmes were fixed beforehand. If I had known about the meeting earlier then I would have not planned my rally,'' Sidhu said.

The Congress leader has held three rallies, including two in Bathinda and one in Hoshiarpur, without consulting the state unit.

The former Punjab Congress chief said that he has a programme of holding another public meeting on January 21 and going to Kartarpur Sahib on January 24.

''When communication breaks then doubt arises. Now with Yadav, the string of contact is tied. Where there is communication, confidence will automatically arise. It is good for everyone to work together,'' he added.

Responding to a poser on the party's alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Sidhu said he will accept what the high command decides in the interest of the country and for saving democracy.

''There can be differences of opinion and the Congress allows it. We have put forth our opinion before Rahul Gandhi,'' he said.

Several Congress leaders are opposing any alliance with the AAP for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Later in his tweet, Sidhu said the Congress embodies service, integrity and courage to say the truth with moral authority unlike those who see politics as a profit venture.

''The true Congressmen champion service, not self-interest. In Punjab the battle is between those who treat politics as transactional business and those who stand with vision, policy and justice for the future generations of Punjab!! Rekindling this passion within our rank and file is the only way to revive the ''Grand Old Party'' and ''Punjab'' !! The fight is ideological not personal !!,'' he said in a post on X.