The clamour for the resignation of Navjot Singh Sidhu seems to be growing with four ministers demanding that cricketer-turned-politician should step down.

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The four Punjab ministers have called for Sidhu's resignation from the state cabinet over his jibe at Punjab Chief Minister Captain (retd) Amarinder Singh, a fallout of the controversial politician's recent trip to Kartarpur in Pakistan.

Apart from Punjab Rural Development Minister Tript Rajinder Bajwa and Revenue Minister Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria, Sports Minister Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi and Sadhu Singh Dharamsot are also demanding Sidhu's resignation.

On Saturday, Bajwa asked Sidhu, who holds the local bodies and tourism portfolios, to resign if has no faith in Amarinder Singh.

"Rahul Gandhi is the 'captain' of all of us, but in Punjab, Amarinder Singh is our captain. If Sidhu ji has no faith in Amarinder Singh, it is his moral duty to resign. Sidhu ji, you are a special person. You have blessings and the god has given you extra quality. Your dreams are big and I wish all of them are fulfilled. But the way you speak without thinking, it won't let you reach anywhere," Bajwa said.

Bajwa's reaction came after Sidhu said that it was Congress president Rahul Gandhi who sent him there for attending the foundation laying ceremony of the Kartarpur Sahib corridor and that he was his 'captain'.

Sarkaria said Sidhu's language while referring to the chief minister was 'objectionable'.

"Rahul Gandhi is our leader, he is our party's national president. In Punjab, the government is headed by Capt Amarinder Singh, who is our captain in the state and we all work like a team under his leadership," he said.

If Sidhu or anyone else has a problem with this and cannot work under his leadership, he must resign," the minister said.

Sodhi said other ministers too are backing Amarinder Singh on this.

"Among the ministers I spoke with are Aruna Chaudhary and Sadhu Singh Dharamsot. We are all solidly behind Capt Amarinder Singh," Sodhi said.

Another minister Dharamsot also reminded Sidhu that he is not sitting in a comedy show. “In a comedy show, people laugh at such things. But running a government is not a comedy show,” he said.

Sidhu's visit had riled Amarinder Singh, who said on record he tried to dissuade Sidhu, a member of his cabinet, following a grenade attack on a religious congregation in Amritsar that left three people dead, but he paid no heed. 

The row over the trip escalated in the state even as Sidhu backtracked on his claim that Congress president Rahul Gandhi was involved in his decision to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the Kartarpur corridor.

Get your facts right before you distort them, Rahul Gandhi Ji never asked me to go to Pakistan. The whole world knows I went to Pakistan on Prime Minister Imran Khan's personal invite," Sidhu tweeted.

Since his return from Kartarpur, Sidhu has been criticised for lavishing praise on Imran Khan, who too showered special attention on him.

He was also targeted over a photograph which showed him posing with Gopal Singh Chawla, the Pakistan Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee head who is considered pro-Khalistan.

But Sidhu claimed tens of thousands of people wanted to take pictures with him in Kartarpur and he didn't know Chawla.