Clearly miffed at vacating his long held seat of Amritsar to make way for Mr Arun Jaitley in the last Lok Sabha elections, Sidhu claimed he was asked to "stay clear of Punjab". He says he was asked to become a candidate at Kurukshetra and even Delhi, but was directed to stay away from Punjab.
In his inimitable style, the cricketer turned politician resorted to sher-o-shayari to vent his feelings about how the "Modi wave washed him up" in its wake.
Mr Sidhu sidestepped the issue of which party he would join or whether he would be AAP's chief ministerial candidate for Punjab, simply saying "You'll find Navjot Singh Sidhu wherever Punjab's interests are at stake"
Hear this full report, which contains many excerpts from Mr Sidhu's press conference held in New Delhi on July 25, 2016
