Kartarpur Corridor: Punjab Minister threatens to "boycott" credit war


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Barely three hours before the start of the foundation ceremony of a road that will link the Kartarpur Sahib Gartdwara corridor to religious significance, Punjab cabinet minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa appeared upset on Monday.

Preparing the last-minute preparations for Vice President Venkaiah Naidu and Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh to lead the ceremony, Randhawa was seen speaking and angry at the officers who were were preparing for high office.

Congress legislator Dera Baba Nanak appeared visibly upset and was seen screaming after the officers as he was moving on the main stage of the event on Monday.

The minister then told a television channel, "I will not boycott the office, but the foundation stone itself." I do not see my name or that of my fellow ministers, as well as those of the former Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Sukhbir Singh Badal.

"I'm going to put a tape on my name – this (the cornerstone) is unacceptable," said Randhawa, annoyed.

"The Badals do nothing to get the Kartarpur Corridor Project off the ground, they ran the Punjab from 1997 to 2002, and then for 10 years (2007-2017).

"Have they come here to pray while they are in power? They are only trying to take credit (for the Kartarpur corridor) just because they (Shiromani Akali Dal) have an alliance with the BJP, "said the minister.

Randhawa blamed agents of the NHAI (National Highway Authority of India) for the controversy over the first stone. He said that he had serious objections against the first stone bearing the names of the Badals.

He added that the first stone, made by NHAI officials, had been installed at 2 am (Monday).

"The sanctity of the function should have been preserved.The cornerstone would have been only the names of Vice President and Chief Minister Amarinder Singh," said Randhawa.

The minister is also unhappy that the leaders of the Congress in Punjab, including him (as minister and local legislator), the deputy of Gurdaspur, Sunil Jakhar (who is the president of the Punjab Congress) and the minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, were deliberately ignored for the function. all the attention was focused on the Badal family, including the Minister of Harsimrat Badal Union.

The Randhawa explosion took place at the same time that the SAD-BJP and the Punjab Congress leaders were at the center of a major controversy claiming credit for the Indian Government-approved Kartarpur Corridor Relief Project. Pakistani.

The Central NDA Government, of which SAD is a member, approved the project in Punjab, linked to the Kartarpur corridor, on 22 November.

The date of the first stone was decided hastily for November 26 to ensure that this is done before Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan lays the foundation stone of the current Kartarpur corridor in Pakistan Wednesday, November 28.

The Punjab congressional government was to assume its own functions this week, but Chief Minister Amarinder Singh decided to join the central government.

The leadership of the SAD-BJP coalition also sought the credit of state cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, who, in August, traveled to Pakistan for swearing in his friend the crier Imran Khan and was the first to announce that Pakistan The government wanted to open the Kartarpur corridor to the faithful of India.

The leaders of Akali Dal, including Harsimrat Badal, called Sidhu a "traitor" for kissing the Pakistani army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, during the swearing-in ceremony.

They questioned his statements about Pakistan's displacement in the Kartarpur corridor.

Harsimrat Badal is now heading to Pakistan as the central government representative for the Kartarpur Corridor's first stone ceremony on Wednesday. Sidhu also participates in the same event.

This is in Kartarpur Gurdwara, located about two or three kilometers from the Indo-Pakistani international border, just in front of the border belt of Dera Baba Nanak, in the Gurdaspur district, in the Indian, in The state of Punjab, which Guru Nanak Dev (1469-) 1539), spent 18 years of his life until his death in 1539.

The Gurdwara, which fell on Pakistani territory following the partition of India in August 1947, is of great importance to Sikh religion and history.

For over 71 years, even since the partition, Sikhs offer prayers near the international border while seeking Gurdwara from a distance.

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