India, Dec. 8 -- Former legislator Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu has been suspended from the Congress after launching a sweeping attack on the Punjab unit's top leadership, alleging that the race for power has turned the party into a marketplace. Her comments, centred around a claim that the chief minister's position could be secured by paying Rs 500 crore, set off a political storm that the party high command was unable to contain.

Sidhu accused Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, former deputy chief minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa and former chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi of damaging the organisation for personal ambition. She said the four leaders had converted internal poli...