Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh had his share of cake for the party’s victory on eight of the total 13 seats in the state, while leaving the brickbats for his cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu.

Capt Amarinder, mincing no words, blamed Sidhu for the party’s defeat in Bathinda and other urban pockets, for more than one reasons. Dubbing Sidhu as the “non-performing” Minister, Capt Amarinder also pointed that the former cricketer’s “friendly match” remarks in Bathinda has cost the party dear, besides his “yaari and jhappi” (friendship and hugs) with the Pakistani Army Chief that failed to go down well with the people of the border state.

In fact, Capt Amarinder maintained that he would, in the next three-four days, would be visiting the national capital and take up the issue of Sidhu’s “damaging remarks” on the last day of campaigning in Bathinda, that had an adverse impact on the party’s performance in the Badals’ bastion.

“It is a democracy and anyone can do or say whatever he or she likes. But, if he has any difference of opinion, oh ikk din baad nai keh sakda tha (can’t he say it a day after),” said Capt Amarinder on Thursday after declaration of results.

At the same time, he said that the performance of the Ministers and the legislators would be reviewed in the backdrop of the Lok Sabha results in the state. “We will review the performance of the Ministers, it was not a veiled threat made by the party before the elections,” he said.

Visibly upset with Sidhu, Capt Amarinder categorically said that Sidhu was a “non-performing” Minister as the head of Urban Development which has cost the party in urban areas of Bathinda, where it always had a lead.