Navjot Singh Sidhu vacates his ministerial bungalow

Following the acceptance of his "one-line" resignation from the Punjab cabinet by chief minister Amarinder Singh, Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday vacated the official bungalow allotted to him in Chandigarh.

Sidhu has been avoiding the media for more than a month now, but annouced that he had vacated the premises on Twitter.

"Have vacated the ministerial bungalow, handed it over to the Punjab Government," Sidhu tweeted.

On Saturday, CM Singh had accepted Sidhu's resignation and forwarded it to Punjab Governor VP Singh Badnore who conveyed his acceptance of the same.

The 55-year-old cricketer-turned-politician, who has been at loggerheads with Singh, was stripped off key portfolios on June 6 in the cabinet reshuffle. The chief minister had divested Sidhu of the Local Government and Tourism and Cultural Affairs Departments and allotted him the power and new and renewable energy portfolio. After the reshuffle, Si refused to assume the charge of the power department for more than a month, which came as an "embarrassment" to the Congress as opposition parties attacked the regime over the issue.

Then on July 14, Sidhu posted on Twitter his resignation letter addressed to then Congress president Rahul Gandhi.