De­nounc­ing the Badal fam­ily and Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Modi for not be­ing hum­ble and in­dulging in shame­less rhetoric to take credit for the his­toric hap­pen­ing of the open­ing of the Kar­tarpur cor­ri­dor, Dal Khalsa has said that in case the credit goes to some­one it is the Pak­istan gov­ern­ment of Im­ran Khan.

The crick­eter-turned-politi­cian Im­ran Khan has been touch­ing the real is­sues of the peo­ple in his coun­try as well as mak­ing the right noises to bring about thaw in Indo-Pak re­la­tion­ship.

Im­ran Khan’s gov­ern­ment and Pak­istan army chief Gen­eral Qa­mar Javed Ba­jwa has beaten their In­dian coun­ter­parts in the race of ac­cept­ing the de­mands of the Sikh com­mu­nity pend­ing since the last two decades.

It is on record that on many oc­ca­sions in the past, Pak­istan has 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 did­n’t agree at this point of time, the pop­u­lar per­cep­tion will be strength­ened that Pak­istan is more gen­er­ous to the Sikh de­mand than In­dia.

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 on Pak­istani soil near the in­ter­na­tional bor­der.

Cap­tain Amarinder Singh sup­ported the move but chas­tised Navjot Singh Sidhu. He too was caught un­awares by the an­nounce­ment of the gov­ern­ment of In­dia. 

We be­lieve that Sikh prayers have been an­swered, said Kan­warpal Singh, the spokesper­son of the party. The com­mu­nity of­fers grat­i­tude to late Kuldeep Singh Wadala and their team of self­less vol­un­teers who spear­headed the cam­paign for this since 2001. The Dal Khalsa leader also ac­knowl­edged the role of Di­as­pora Sikh lead­ers late Gurmeet Singh Aulakh, late Man­mo­han Singh UK and Dr Prit­pal Singh USA for ini­ti­at­ing the move in 2008 and dili­gently fol­low­ing it up to its log­i­cal con­clu­sion.

Gen­eral Ba­jwa while mur­mur­ing the cor­ri­dor idea in the ears of Pun­jab Min­is­ter Navjot Singh Sidhu dur­ing his fa­mous hug set the ball rolling in the cur­rent sce­nario which wit­nessed height­ened Sikh in­ter­est in the Kar­tarpur Sahib cor­ri­dor in view of the 550th birth an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions of Guru Nanak Sahib.

“We feel that Gen­eral Ba­jwa’s mas­ter­stroke has touched the right chords and it looks that the dream will be­come re­al­ity by No­vem­ber 2019 when the com­mu­nity will ob­serve 550th Parkash day of Guru Nanak”, said Kan­warpal Singh.

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 sand­wiched be­tween the two nu­clear-power coun­tries.

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Left to In­dia alone, he said, the New Delhi would never have ful­filled the Sikh de­sire for the visa-free pas­sage to have free ac­cess to Gur­d­wara Dar­bar Sahib Kar­tarpur.

Dera Baba Nanak, 24 No­vem­ber 2018 WSN News Desk