New Delhi: Come what may, Navjyot Singh Sidhu can’t help going lyrical. And on Wednesday, at what was probably the most crucial hour of his life, the cricketer-turned-TV star and MP couldn’t stop belting out some Sidhuisms.
“Hammein mujre main na yun kehna, bada afsos hota hai,
Adalat ke adab se hum yahan tashreef laye hain,
Palat dete hain mauj-e-toofan apni jurrat se,
Ke humne aandhiyon mein bhi chiraag aksar jalaye hain.”
It’s next to impossible to translate Sidhuism into English. But then the verve and energy of a fallen star to come back from distress is only too evident in his sound-bites.
In fact, Sidhu said as much in clear-cut words as well. “I still have that sportsman spirit in me. I take winning and losing in the same spirit. Neither does winning elate me, nor does losing hurt me. I was only worried about one thing and that was to make sure I remain standing on moral grounds,” he said immediately after the Punjab and Haryana High Court sentenced him to three years imprisonment in a 1988 murder case in Patiala.
The popular TV star also appealed to the people not to lose faith in him. “People must not give up their faith, their trust and goodwill that I have shared with them over the years. I do not worry about losing a political position. All that I worry about is the goodwill that I’ve had and I continue to have among people,” he says.
Sidhu had been convicted by the court last week for culpable homicide not amounting to murder for the death of Gurnaam Singh in Patiala in 1988.
Sidhu was doing some word-play even on December 1, Friday, when he was convicted by the same court.
"To know what’s right and not do it is the worst form of cowardice and I am not a coward. I shall stand by the truth, the principle and campaign against the Raja (Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh)," he had said.
"In a loktantra, logon ka raj hai, kisi raja ka nahin. (I will campaign against the Raja. In a democracy, people rule, not kings)"
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