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. She was elected to assembly in 2012 from Amritsar East as a candidate of

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. She was appointed Chief Parliamentary Secretary. She is doctor by profession and served in Govt. Rajindra Hospital, Patiala before resigning in January 2012 to enter politics. She is married to former cricketer and Congress leader

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. They have a son named Karan and daughter Rabia. Kaur announced her resignation from the BJP on her

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page, before launching an attack on Chief Minister

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in another post. Navjot Kaur, who along with her husband, cricketer-turned-politician

, had not been enjoying the best of relations with her party's Punjab unit as well as the SAD leadership, posted a message on 1 April 2016. It said, "Finally I have resigned from the BJP. The burden is over." Navjot Kaur exposed a senior state government medical officer running a private hospital in

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through a sting operation. The then central Health Minister

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invited Sidhu, to become a member of the National PNDT Committee for reforms in the Health Department.

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