Congress Punjab unit president Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday alleged that he was not being allowed a free hand to take decisions. Sidhu's remarks come on a day his adviser Malwinder Singh Mali resigned amid a row over his controversial statements on Kashmir.

"I have told the party high command that if I am able to come up to the expectations of the people of Punjab and the Punjab model, I will not let Congress go out of the picture for two decades," Navjot Singh Sidhu said.