Even as the Punjab Congress is treading cautiously as far as former PPCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu’s political role is concerned, the party high command is planning to engage its firebrand leader against the BJP in the Karnataka Assembly elections.

Soon after his release from the Patiala jail on Saturday, the cricketer-turned-politician targeted the BJP and AAP for allegedly playing a friendly match in defaming Punjabis and hatching a conspiracy to impose the President’s rule in the state.