Navjot Singh Sidhu (MLA-Amritsar East)

Punjab Assembly elections 2022: Born on October 20, 1963, the cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu is the current chief of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee and an MLA from Amritsar East. Formerly, he was the Minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs in the state government. As a professional cricketer, Sidhu had a career spanning over 19 years while his first-class debut was in 1981–82. After retirement from cricket, he turned to commentary and television, most notably as a judge of comedy shows, and as a permanent guest in Comedy Nights with Kapil (2013–2015) and later The Kapil Sharma Show (2016–2019). Sidhu, later, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2004 and contested the general election from Amritsar that year. He won the election and held the seat till 2014. He was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 2016 from Punjab before he resigned from the position the same year and quit the party. In 2017, Navjot Singh Sidhu joined the Indian National Congress and was elected to the Punjab Legislative Assembly from Amritsar East.