Chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh along with his cabinet colleagues and others at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur. The corridor was thrown open on November 9. ht fileHT Correspondent
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Chandigarh : Chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday said Pakistan railway minister Sheikh Rashid’s disclosure that Kartarpur Corridor was the “brainchild” of their army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and it will hurt India forever has exposed Islamabad’s nefarious intent behind the initiative.
The CM expressed concern over this admission by the Pakistan minister and said that in validating his stand on the issue, Rashid had completely bared the wicked design of the neighbouring country behind the corridor, which India hoped would emerge as a bridge of peace between the two countries.
Given Rashid’s revelation, the chief minister also urged his former cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu to be cautious in his dealings with the Imran Khan government in Pakistan.
Terming it an open and blatant threat against India’s security and integrity, Amarinder warned Pakistan not to attempt to indulge in any misadventure.
Amarinder recalled that he had all along maintained that while he was extremely happy as a Sikh at the opening of the corridor to enable access to devotees to the historic Kartarpur Gurdwara, the threat it posed to our country could not be ignored.
The CM recalled that he had all along maintained that while he was extremely happy, as a Sikh, at the opening of the corridor to enable access to Indian devotees to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, “the threat it posed to our country could not be ignored”.
Amarinder said he had been repeatedly cautioned over the matter warning that Pakistan was trying to win the sympathies of the Sikhs by opening the corridor to further the ISI-backed “Referendum 2020” agenda.
