NEW DELHI: Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated on Tuesday that Navjot Singh Sidhu's gesture of hugging Pakistan's army leader impacted squaddies again home and asserted that the Punjab minister could have "avoided it".
Cricketer-turned baby-kisser Sidhu had courted controversy by way of hugging Pakistan army leader Qamar Javed Bajwa all over his seek advice from to the neighbouring nation for the oath-taking ceremony of Imran Khan as Prime Minister.
He had claimed that he did in order Bajwa instructed him that the Pakistan govt was once working for opening of the Kartarpur hall for Sikh pilgrims from Punjab.
"Sidhu has a lot of admirers ... somebody of that stature going there and then hugging the chief of the army, an army about which in India we have very clear feelings, it certainly has an impact on soldiers..., it demoralises the people. I wish Sidhu would have avoided it (hug)," she stated all over an interplay on the Indian Women's Press Corp (IWPC).
Cricketer-turned baby-kisser Sidhu had courted controversy by way of hugging Pakistan army leader Qamar Javed Bajwa all over his seek advice from to the neighbouring nation for the oath-taking ceremony of Imran Khan as Prime Minister.
He had claimed that he did in order Bajwa instructed him that the Pakistan govt was once working for opening of the Kartarpur hall for Sikh pilgrims from Punjab.
"Sidhu has a lot of admirers ... somebody of that stature going there and then hugging the chief of the army, an army about which in India we have very clear feelings, it certainly has an impact on soldiers..., it demoralises the people. I wish Sidhu would have avoided it (hug)," she stated all over an interplay on the Indian Women's Press Corp (IWPC).
Sidhu could have avoided hugging Pak Army chief: Sitharaman
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