CHANDIGARH: The Akali Dal requested Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday whether or not "India is his priority" or no longer, a pointy assault after a outstanding pro-Khalistan separatist leader shared his purported photograph with the Punjab Cabinet minister on social media.
Gopal Singh Chawla, the overall secretary of Pakistan Sikh Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee (PSGPC), Thursday shared the photograph on his Facebook page.
Chawla, a identified pro-Khalistan voice, used to be also seen shaking hands with Pakistan Army leader Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on the ground-breaking rite of Kartarpur corridor in Pakistan on Wednesday.
"There was a link between Gopal Chawla and a terrorist attack that took place in Amritsar (on Nirankari Bhavan), which is his (Sidhu's) constituency. If he shakes hands with him or do something with him, then Sidhu has to answer in order to clear whether country is his priority or something else," SAD president Sukhbir Badal said.
Three persons had been killed while over 20 had been injured in a grenade assault on Nirankari Bhavan in Amritsar on November 18.
Badal said Sidhu must have identified that Pakistan has been inquisitive about pushing medicine into Punjab. "It is Gen Bajwa who is behind killing our youth with whom he hakes hands."
Taking a swipe on the Congress president, Badal said Rahul Gandhi has a "very good opportunity" to expand his birthday party to Pakistan by making Sidhu the executive of the birthday party's unit there.
However, Congress leader Raj Kumar Verka slammed the Akali Dal for attacking Sidhu and no longer taking motion towards Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee leader Gobind Singh Longowal, whose photograph with Chawla has also appeared on social media.
"I feel Sukhbir Badal, Badal family and BJP is suffering from Sidhu phobia. I think they chant Sidhu's name more than Baba (Guru) Nanak Dev," said Verka.
"Longowal knows Chawla very well. He knows Chawla is a member of (Pakistan) Gurdwara committee. He also knows Chawla is our country's enemy. Despite this, Longowal posed with Chawla for a picture. Sidhu even does not know about Chawla," claimed Verka.
Verka requested Badal whether or not he would seek resignation of Longowal as SGPC leader.
Meanwhile, former leader of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee Paramjit Singh Sarna claimed that Sidhu avoided Chawla many times. "But he (Chawla) managed to get a picture clicked with him," said Sarna at Attari in Amritsar.
Sidhu, Longowal and Sarna had attended the ground-breaking rite in Pakistan.
Gopal Singh Chawla, the overall secretary of Pakistan Sikh Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee (PSGPC), Thursday shared the photograph on his Facebook page.
Chawla, a identified pro-Khalistan voice, used to be also seen shaking hands with Pakistan Army leader Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on the ground-breaking rite of Kartarpur corridor in Pakistan on Wednesday.
"There was a link between Gopal Chawla and a terrorist attack that took place in Amritsar (on Nirankari Bhavan), which is his (Sidhu's) constituency. If he shakes hands with him or do something with him, then Sidhu has to answer in order to clear whether country is his priority or something else," SAD president Sukhbir Badal said.
Three persons had been killed while over 20 had been injured in a grenade assault on Nirankari Bhavan in Amritsar on November 18.
Badal said Sidhu must have identified that Pakistan has been inquisitive about pushing medicine into Punjab. "It is Gen Bajwa who is behind killing our youth with whom he hakes hands."
Taking a swipe on the Congress president, Badal said Rahul Gandhi has a "very good opportunity" to expand his birthday party to Pakistan by making Sidhu the executive of the birthday party's unit there.
However, Congress leader Raj Kumar Verka slammed the Akali Dal for attacking Sidhu and no longer taking motion towards Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee leader Gobind Singh Longowal, whose photograph with Chawla has also appeared on social media.
"I feel Sukhbir Badal, Badal family and BJP is suffering from Sidhu phobia. I think they chant Sidhu's name more than Baba (Guru) Nanak Dev," said Verka.
"Longowal knows Chawla very well. He knows Chawla is a member of (Pakistan) Gurdwara committee. He also knows Chawla is our country's enemy. Despite this, Longowal posed with Chawla for a picture. Sidhu even does not know about Chawla," claimed Verka.
Verka requested Badal whether or not he would seek resignation of Longowal as SGPC leader.
Meanwhile, former leader of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee Paramjit Singh Sarna claimed that Sidhu avoided Chawla many times. "But he (Chawla) managed to get a picture clicked with him," said Sarna at Attari in Amritsar.
Sidhu, Longowal and Sarna had attended the ground-breaking rite in Pakistan.
Navjot Singh Sidhu assailed after pro-Khalistan leader shares photo with him on social media
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