Navjot Singh Sidhu released from jail after 10 months; says revolution is taking place in country under Rahul's leadership

NEW DELHI: Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu was released from Patiala Jail on Saturday, about 10 months after he was sentenced to one-year jail by Supreme Court in a three decades old road rage case.

The Congress leader was sentenced to one year of imprisonment by the apex court in May last year in the 1988 case of road rage in which he allegedly thrashed one Gurnam Singh, who later died in hospital.

After coming out of jail, Sidhu responded that a revolution is taking place in the country under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi. Sidhu, who lavished praises on Rahul Gandhi, criticized both the central government and the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab.

The Congress leader said that the country's democracy is in chains and Rahul Gandhi has started a revolution to save the country from dictatorship. “Whenever a dictatorship came to this country a revolution has also come and this time, the name of that revolution is Rahul Gandhi. He will rattle the government.”