Punjab Congress boss Navjot Singh Sidhu on Saturday visited the venerated Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan and offered petitions and focused on “opening of another companionship section” and exchange between the two nations, days after India resumed the without visa Kartarpur passage for Sikh pioneers.
The Kartarpur hall joins Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan, the last resting spot of Sikhism organizer Guru Nanak Dev, with the Dera Baba Nanak altar in Gurdaspur region in India’s Punjab state. The 4 km-long passage gives sans visa admittance to Indian Sikh pioneers to visit the Darbar Sahib.
The journey to the Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara was suspended in March last year in light of the Covid-19 flare-up. The Kartarpur hall was resumed on Tuesday for travelers.
“For the sake of Baba Guru Nanak, another section of companionship between the two nations should start,” Sidhu told columnists upon his landing in the Kartarpur Sahib.
“After the World conflicts in which a huge number of individuals lost their lives, if Europe can open lines on one-visa, has one identification and one money, why not around here of our own where we have figures like Bhagat Singh and Maharaja Ranjeet Singh who are loved by everybody?” he inquired.
Sidhu said he needs common love among India and Pakistan.
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“There is a need to open windows in the dividers raised in 74 years (among India and Pakistan),” he said, focusing on the launch of exchange between the two nations.
“There ought to be exchange between two nations,” the cricketer-turned-government official said.
Sidhu expressed gratitude toward Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan for finding a way a way to open the hallway.
“I’m grateful to PM (Imran Khan) for venturing out and on the opposite side (India) reacted with two stages. I had effectively said that those inclining toward the ‘laanga’ (passageway) would have favors and those contradicting it had no worth,” he said.
At the point when Kartarpur Corridor Project Management Unit CEO Muhammad Latif invited the previous Test cricketer at the zero point and stretched out all the best to him and his appointment for the top state leader, Sidhu said: “Imran Khan is my senior sibling. I’m significantly respected. He (Khan) provided us with a ton of affection.” Sidhu visited the complex and furthermore offered strict ceremonies. He and his assignment individuals were offered ‘langar’ (food) produced using the wheat and vegetables of the fields, which Guru Nanak Dev used to care for.
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As indicated by Latif, more than 300 Indian Sikhs visited the Kartarpur Sahib on Saturday the fourth day of the returning of the course which was suspended for around 20 months following the Covid.
Recently, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi alongside 37 others, including his Cabinet pastors, and Jagir Kaur, leader of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), had visited the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib.
Somewhere in the range of 2,500 Indian Sikhs who have come to Pakistan through Wagah verge on the event of the 552 birth commemoration of Guru Nanak Dev will likewise visit the Darbar Sahib.
In November 2019, Prime Minister Khan officially introduced the Kartarpur Corridor as a feature of the recognition of the 550th birth commemoration of Guru Nanak at a beautiful service, making ready for Indian Sikh travelers to visit one of their religion’s holiest destinations in Pakistan without requiring a visa.
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Sidhu’s public interview likewise comes on a day when he kicked up another debate when he alluded to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan as “bada bhai”. — Agencies
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