Chandigarh, April 12 -- The political sphere in Punjab was stirred by controversy as a 2011-batch IAS officer Parampal Kaur Sidhu on Thursday officially joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alongside her husband Gurpreet Singh Maluka - son of senior Akali Dal leader Sikander Singh Maluka, mere days after tendering her voluntary retirement from the Punjab Government. However, the timing of Sidhu's resignation and subsequent political allegiance sparked a dispute, with conflicting statements emerging from different quarters.
While Sidhu and Maluka's induction into the BJP was marked by a formal ceremony at BJP headquarters in New Delhi, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, hours later, shared a post on X asserting that the State Governmen...