Chandigarh: Punjab Governor Vijayender Pal Singh Badnore has accepted Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu's resignation as a State Minister on Saturday.
Earlier on Saturday, Punjab CM Captain Amrinder Singh had also accepted Navjot Singh Sidhu's resignation and has forwarded his resignation to Governor of Punjab Vijayender Pal Singh Badnore.
Sidhu, who had been at loggerheads with the Chief Minister and was stripped off-key portfolios in a cabinet reshuffle on June 6, made his resignation letter public by putting it on Twitter recently.
The tension between the Chief Minister and his cabinet colleague had come out in the open last month when the CM blamed Sidhu for the "inept handling" of the Local Government Department, claiming that it resulted in "poor performance" of the Congress in urban areas in the Lok Sabha polls.