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Navjot Sidhu to leave comedy show if it’s Office of Profit

Amid the raging controversy over Punjab's Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu's appearance in a comedy show, his wife and former…

Navjot Sidhu to leave comedy show if it’s Office of Profit

Navjot Singh Sidhu (PHOTO: AFP)

Amid the raging controversy over Punjab's Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu's appearance in a comedy show, his wife and former legislator Navjot Kaur on Tuesday said her husband would leave the show if it attracts the Office of Profit clause.

The CM Captain Amarinder Singh had on Monday said he would seek legal opinion in Sidhu's case to decide whether his minister can continue as a celebrity-judge on a popular TV comedy show.

 “I do not know what the Constitution or the law says on this matter. We will have to ask our advocate general to give us an opinion whether a person who is a minister can do what he wants to do."

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“It will entirely depend on legal opinion and then I will bring it to Navjot Singh Sidhu’s notice. Frankly, I do not know whether it is a conflict of interest. Once I get an opinion from them (advocate general and
legal experts), I will have a chat with him,” Singh told the channel.

Kaur, however, maintains that her husband earns his living by working in the show. Sidhu is minister of tourism and culture and local bodies in the new Congress government.

"Such hype has been created about Navjot earning a living from television. When I was working as a MLA, my electricity bill and tea for guests costed more. We have no other business or source of income
except television. He has left 80 percent of shows which included IPL, commentator etc. Shooting for 2 shows of comedy night with Kapil takes only 5 hours in a week and that also mostly on Saturday night. I
think it is a meagre time for a non socially active God fearing workaholic," Kaur said in her Fabebook post on Sunday.

She maintains that since the shooting for The Kapil Sharma Show is done only for about five hours mostly on Saturday, it's not much time to spare.

Sidhu maintains his TV shows will not interfere with his Cabinet responsibilities. “I have no liquor, sand mining or transport business like former deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal. “I earn a
living through TV shows and I will be in Chandigarh from Monday to Thursday and in Amritsar from Friday to Sunday. What I do at night should not be anyone’s concern. I will take first flight back to
Punjab after TV shoots in Mumbai,” he said.

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