Navjot Kaur Sidhu
| Navjot Kaur Sidhu | |
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| Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly | |
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In office 2012 – 8 October 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Gian Chand Kharbanda |
| Succeeded by | Navjot Singh Sidhu |
| Constituency | Amritsar East |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | Indian National Congress (2016–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Bharatiya Janata Party (till 2016) |
| Spouse(s) | Navjot Singh Sidhu |
Navjot Kaur Sidhu is an Indian politician and former member of Punjab Legislative Assembly. She was elected to assembly in 2012 from Amritsar East as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party.
She is appointed as Chief Parliamentary Secretary. She is doctor by profession and served Punjab Health department before resigning in January 2012 to join politics. She is married to former cricketer and BJP leader Navjot Singh Sidhu. They have a son named Karan and daughter named Rabia.
She announced her resignation from the BJP on her Facebook page, before launching an attack on Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in another post. Navjot Kaur, who along with her husband, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, had not been enjoying the best of relations with her party’s Punjab unit as well as the SAD leadership, posted a message on 1 April 2016. It said, "Finally I have resigned from the BJP. The burden is over."
Navjot Kaur exposed a senior state government medical officer running a private hospital in Mohali through a sting operation. The then central Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad invited Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu, to become a member of the National PNDT Committee for reforms in the Health Department.
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