CHANDIGARH, Punjab—Taking Badal family to task for giving credit to the Modi Government for a corridor to Kartarpur Sahib, the Dal Khalsa said if at all credit is to be given, it goes to Pakistan army chief General Qamar Bajwa.
The Badals are indulging in sycophancy. They are patting their own backs while riding piggyback on the shoulders of Indian PM Narendra Modi, said party Spokesman Kanwar Pal Singh after visiting Dera Baba Nanak with party members to have the glimpse of Gurdwara Sahib situated at Pakistani soil near international border.
We believe that Sikh prayers have been answered. The community offers gratitude to late Kuldeep Singh Wadala and their team of selfless volunteers who spearheaded the campaign for this since 2001. On the other hand, we also compliment the contribution of Diaspora Sikh leaders late Gurmeet Singh Aulakh, late Manmohan Singh UK and Dr Pritpal Singh USA for initiating the move in 2008 to convince Pakistani establishment.
General Bajwa while murmuring the corridor idea in the ears of Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu during his famous hug with him , intelligently played the card by hitting many targets with single arrow.
General chooses Sikh face having Hindutva links and oratory skills as a messenger to deliver his message to Indian dispensation putting New Delhi in a dock where it has no choice but to agree though reluctantly.
We feel that General Bajwa’s masterstroke has touched the right chords and it looks that the dream will become reality by Nov 2019 when the community will observe 550th Parkash day of Guru Nanak , said leader of pro-freedom Sikh group.
Nevertheless, acceptance of the long standing desire of Guru Nanak nam leva by both India and Pakistan is a win-win situation for the tiny Sikh Nation that is sandwiched between the two nuclear-power countries.
It is on record that on many occasions in the past, Pakistan expressed its willingness to build the corridor in case India agrees. So the ball was in India’s court and the Modi dispensation knew that if it won’t agree at this point of time, the popular perception will be strengthened that Pakistan is more generous to the Sikh demand than India.
Left to India alone, he said, the New Delhi would never have fulfilled the Sikh desire for the visa-free passage to have darshan didaree (glimpses) of Gurdwara Sahib.
We hope and pray that bureaucratic red-tapism on both sides of Radcliffe line won’t create any hurdle to scuttle the move, he remarked.
