‘I’ve no liquor, mining business...I make money from TV shows’
‘I’ve no liquor, mining business...I make money from TV shows’ Sitting in the plush office of the local government department of Punjab in Chandigarh, former Indian batsman Navjot Singh Sidhu, a cabinet minister in the new Congress government of Punjab, does not seem on unfamiliar ground. On the second day of taking over as a minister, he has already held marathon meetings with his department officials and warned them against corruption. In an interview to HT, he says half of Punjab now lives in urban areas and his department can be the next match-winner. What has been your first job after taking over as local government minister? After the first cabinet meeting on Saturday, I took marathon meetings of local government and tourism departments on Sunday and asked the officers to tell me both the problems and the solutions. This is a mandate of hope. And when people hope, they also expect. Like in a Test match, have we to bat well in the first innings, that is, in the fi...