Close X
Sunday, November 24, 2024
ADVT 
India

‘You’ve Won Hearts’: Navjot Singh Sidhu To Imran Khan After Kartarpur Inauguration

Darpan News Desk IANS, 09 Nov, 2019 08:09 PM

    Punjab Congress MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu Saturday said Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has “won hearts” by inaugurating the Kartarpur Corridor. Sidhu was speaking at the inauguration event on the Pakistan side of the border which he attended as a special invitee of Khan.

     

    Sidhu also thanked Narendra Modi for making the project happen, saying he was sending a “Munnabhai MBBS style hug” to the Prime Minister.

     

    Sidhu said, “No one can deny my friend Imran Khan’s contribution. I am thanking Modi ji also, it doesn’t matter if we have political differences, doesn’t matter if my life is dedicated to Gandhi family, I am sending a Munnabhai MBBS style hug to you Modi sahab for this.”

     
     

    Sidhu’s appearance today at the opening was after a self-imposed exile of almost five months. In his speech, Sidhu recited Urdu couplets and said Khan had fulfilled the dream of four generations of Sikhs by opening the corridor. “For the first time since Partition, the fence has been broken down, ab border kholo, dil kholo,” Sidhu was quoted as saying in Punjabi amid slogans of ‘Bole So Nihal, Sat Sri Akal’.

     

    The Kartarpur Corridor, connecting Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India’s Punjab with Darbar Sahib— also called Kartarpur Sahib— in Narowal district in Pakistan’s Punjab, was thrown open today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the pilgrimage of nearly 550 pilgrims and handed over the flag of the Jatha to Jathedar Akal Takht.

     

    The 9-km Corridor has been inaugurated to celebrate the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak. Remembering the Sikh guru, Sidhu in his address, said, “Baba Guru Nanak spent the last days of his life here. He spent his life bringing people together and spreading the message of love. In your last days here you continued to spread the message of oneness, truth, peace. His teachings carry the lessons of humanity and its well-being.”

    MORE India ARTICLES

    Manoj Bajpayee, Pankaj Tripathi Seek Help For Bihar Flood Victims

    Manoj on Monday took to Twitter and wrote: "Dear friends, Bihar needs you. Please help, share and spread the word. Bihar CM Relief Fund: cmrf.bih.nic.in/users/home.aspx .... Help through Paytm: m.p-y.tm/Bihar."

    Manoj Bajpayee, Pankaj Tripathi Seek Help For Bihar Flood Victims

    Lone Surviving Witness To Mahatma's Killing Says Country Needs Humble Leaders Like Gandhi

    Till 1981, Madan served as the Special Secretary in the Union Ministry of Home Affairs in Delhi. He now lives with his son and hardly moves out due to old age.    

    Lone Surviving Witness To Mahatma's Killing Says Country Needs Humble Leaders Like Gandhi

    Personally Against Death Penalty, Says Amarinder Singh On Balwant Rajoana

    Balwant Singh Rajoana was given death penalty for involvement in the killing of Beant Singh, credited with ending terrorism in Punjab, on August 31, 1995  

    Personally Against Death Penalty, Says Amarinder Singh On Balwant Rajoana

    Beant Singh’s Family To Approach SC Against Decision To Commute Rajoana’s Death Sentence

    A special court in July 2007 awarded death sentence to Rajoana, along with another terrorist Jagtar Singh Hawara, in the Beant Singh assassination case.    

    Beant Singh’s Family To Approach SC Against Decision To Commute Rajoana’s Death Sentence

    Mumbai Man Arrested For Raping NRI Woman After Promising Marriage: Cops

    Mumbai Man Arrested For Raping NRI Woman After Promising Marriage: Cops
    The alleged victim, a divorcee and mother of two, has been living in London for the last 17 years.

    Mumbai Man Arrested For Raping NRI Woman After Promising Marriage: Cops

    Pak PM Imran Khan Removes Maleeha Lodhi From UN; Tainted Munir Akram To Take Over

    Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has abruptly removed his country's Permanent Representative Maleeha Lodhi after failing to make headway in his Kashmir campaign at the General Assembly's high-level meeting.

    Pak PM Imran Khan Removes Maleeha Lodhi From UN; Tainted Munir Akram To Take Over