Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has dubbed the whole affair as a bigger conspiracy hatched by the
Pak army. Citing the fact that Pakistan Army General Qamar Javed Bajwa had broken the news of opening the Kartarpur Corridor to Punjab cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu even before Imran Khan was sworn in as Pakistan prime minister, the chief minister said the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor was clearly a game plan of the ISI. “A bigger conspiracy seems to have been hatched by Pakistan Army against India”,he added.  He admitted that Pakistan  was attempting to revive militancy in Punjab and thus everyone should be wary of all of its overtures, no matter how grand they appear to be. The Sidhu affair was being unnecessarily hyped and those raising it had clearly failed to see the ISI game plan, said Captain Amarinder.Capt. Amarinder Singh said the demand for opening of the Kartarpur Sahib corridor was pending since the Partition as several holy Sikh shrines (Sri Nankana Sahib, Sri Panja Sahib, Dera Sahib and Kartarpur Sahib) had been left in Pakistan. Even former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Dr. Manmohan Singh had taken up the issue of opening the Kartarpur corridor with Pakistan. He said, he himself had raised this issue with his Pakistan Punjab counterpart Parvez Elahi and with the then President, Parvez Musharraf during his previous tenure as the chief minister. Asked on why he opted not to go to Pakistan for the ground-breaking ceremony of the Kartarpur Sahib corridor, Captain Amarinder said he declined the invite because he could not think of going there while Indian soldiers and civilians were being killed by Pakistani Army. On the issue of Navjot Sidhu’s visit to Pakistan for the ground-breaking ceremony, Captain Amarinder said that he had told Sidhu that he had declined the invite by writing a letter to the Pak Minister for foreign affairs, and had also shared a copy of the same on the social media.

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