Navjot Sidhu reaches Pakistan, says Kartarpur corridor "will erase hostility between two nations"

Contrasting with the controversy between Punjab prime minister Amarinder Singh in Pakistan over cross-border terrorism during the Kartarpur Corridor's laying ceremony, his minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said Tuesday that it would help promote peace. two countries. Sidhu, who arrived in Pakistan to take part in the groundbreaking ceremony, described Kartarpur as "a corridor of infinite possibilities".

This 4 km long corridor will connect Dera Baba Nanak, in the Indian district of Gurdasur, to Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib Narowal, Pakistan. The corridor will provide Indian Sikh pilgrims with visa-free access to Guru Nanak's last resting place.

Sidhu thanked the Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, for making the corridor possible, saying that It was a happy moment for the Sikh community. "It will erase the enmity between the two nations. The seed sown by Imran Khan three months ago has become a plant, "he told the media in Wagah.

About his infamous hug with general Qamar Javed Bajwa, a member of Pakistani army, during his visit to the swearing-in ceremony of Imran Khan, Sidhu declared it was not a Rafale agreement and lasted only one second "When two Punjabis meet, they embrace, as usual in Punjab," he said.

On Monday, Sidhu skipped the laying ceremony of the first stone of the Kartarpur Indian side corridor in Gurdaspur, Punjab, which was attended by Vice President Venkaiah Naidu and Amarinder Singh, however, he arrived by plane from Madhya Pradesh to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Dera Baba Nana k, where he paid tribute.

Sushma Swaraj, Minister of External Affairs, and CM Amarinder Singh were invited to the ceremony. Swaraj had declined the invitation because of earlier commitments, but had proposed the presence of Union ministers, Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Hardeep Singh Puri.

Singh had rejected it. At the invitation of President Jammu and Kashmir, he said he would not go because "not a day goes by without Indian soldiers being killed or wounded on the line of control in Jammu and Kashmir".