Amid ongoing demand for his resignation over remarks on Punjab Chief Minister, Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday said that Captain Amrinder Singh is a fatherly figure for him, and he himself will sort-out the issues.

Sidhu's reaction came after four Punjab ministers and one Member of the Parliament called for his resignation from the state cabinet over his jibe at Punjab Chief Minister Captain (retd) Amarinder Singh, a fallout of the controversial politician's recent trip to Kartarpur in Pakistan.

"You don't want to wash dirty linen in public. He (Capt Amarinder Singh) is a fatherly figure, I love him, I respect him; I will sort it out myself," Sidhu said.

Apart from Punjab Rural Development Minister Tript Rajinder Bajwa and Revenue Minister Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria, Sports Minister Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi and Sadhu Singh Dharamsot are also demanding Sidhu's resignation.

On Saturday, Bajwa asked Sidhu, who holds the local bodies and tourism portfolios, to resign if has no faith in Amarinder Singh.

"Rahul Gandhi is the 'captain' of all of us, but in Punjab, Amarinder Singh is our captain. If Sidhu ji has no faith in Amarinder Singh, it is his moral duty to resign. Sidhu ji, you are a special person. You have blessings and the god has given you extra quality. Your dreams are big and I wish all of them are fulfilled. But the way you speak without thinking, it won't let you reach anywhere," Bajwa said.

Another minister Dharamsot also reminded Sidhu that he is not sitting in a comedy show. “In a comedy show, people laugh at such things. But running a government is not a comedy show,” he said.

Meanwhile, offering open support to Amarinder Singh, Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu and Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu have put up hoardings across Ludhiana which reads - ‘Punjab da captain, sadda captain’.

Sidhu's visit had riled Amarinder Singh, who said on record he tried to dissuade Sidhu, a member of his cabinet, following a grenade attack on a religious congregation in Amritsar that left three people dead, but he paid no heed.

The row over the trip escalated in the state even as Sidhu backtracked on his claim that Congress president Rahul Gandhi was involved in his decision to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the Kartarpur corridor.

Get your facts right before you distort them, Rahul Gandhi Ji never asked me to go to Pakistan. The whole world knows I went to Pakistan on Prime Minister Imran Khan's personal invite," Sidhu tweeted.

Since his return from Kartarpur, Sidhu has been criticised for lavishing praise on Imran Khan, who too showered special attention on him.

He was also targeted over a photograph which showed him posing with Gopal Singh Chawla, the Pakistan Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee head who is considered pro-Khalistan.

But Sidhu claimed tens of thousands of people wanted to take pictures with him in Kartarpur and he didn't know Chawla.