Amarinder Singh against Navjot Sidhu in Kartarpur

The decision of Punjab Minister Navjot Sidhu to visit Pakistan for the inauguration ceremony of the Kartarpur Sahib corridor did not satisfy his chief, Amarinder Singh, who rejected the invitation of Islamabad, citing terrorist attacks in Pathankot and Amritsar. Mr. Siddhu accepted the invitation, boasting that his controversial embrace of Pakistan's army chief, General Qamar Bajwa, had "gone well for 15 to 16 million people" since then. that it had led to the construction of the long-awaited corridor.

Mr. Sidhu's decision to visit Pakistan was "his way of thinking," said the prime minister. "I only know my responsibility as Chief Minister and Sikh, which is why we wanted this Kartarpur corridor to come true, but my responsibility is also to maintain law and order, which "I can not go (to Pakistan)," said the chief minister, who also launched a scathing attack on Pakistani army chief Qamar Bajwa in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.

Mr. Sidhu defended his decision to go, citing the words of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "The Prime Minister said:" If the Berlin Wall can fall, why not? "So I say the same thing, religion unites," he told reporters.

Mr Singh and his minister did not closely watch Mr Sidhu's embrace for General Bajwa, who was the subject of a huge political controversy in August, after The former cricketer went to Pakistan for his swearing-in ceremony of Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan.

"The man (Sidhu) should understand that our soldiers are killed every day, and my own regiment lost a commander and two jawans a few months ago," said Amarinder Singh.

Mr. Sidhu had stated that he expressed his happiness when Mr. Bajwa told him that the Pakistani government was working for the opening of the Kartarpur corridor to Sikh pilgrims from India.

This time, he also credited the hallway to Imran Khan. "The Prime Minister of Pakistan is an instrument of change," he told NDTV in an interview yesterday.