The ed­i­tor of World Sikh News Jag­mo­han Singh writes an open let­ter of ap­pre­ci­a­tion to Pun­jab min­is­ter and for­mer crick­eter, Navjot Singh Sidhu, for break­ing ice be­tween In­dia and Pak­istan and bring­ing good news about the pos­si­bil­ity of open­ing of the Kar­tarpur cor­ri­dor. He chas­tises those who have op­posed him and urges the leader to ig­nore them.

Dear Navjot Singh Sidhu
Sat Sri Akaal!
Con­grat­u­la­tions for your bold jour­ney to Pak­istan to par­tic­i­pate in the swear­ing-in of your friend, crick­eter-turned-politi­cian, Im­ran Khan as the Prime Min­is­ter of the Is­lamic Re­pub­lic.

You have said in one in­ter­view af­ter an­other that you have brought the love and bless­ings of the Ravi from the other side of the Rad­cliffe line. Ac­tu­ally in one mas­ter­stroke you have hit a six which has clean bowled your per­sonal and po­lit­i­cal ad­ver­saries.

I don’t en­dorse your pol­i­tics nor your style of pol­i­tics. I don’t rel­ish your loud com­edy. Your flip flop with Sikhism has up­set many a time. Your at­tempts to be sec­u­lar are typ­i­cally In­dian, which may fetch votes but are dif­fi­cult to di­gest.

Nev­er­the­less, your hug of peace and the huge pos­si­bil­ity of open­ing the Kar­tarpur cor­ri­dor for 550 year cel­e­bra­tions of Guru Nanak’s birth an­niver­sary, if it hap­pens, will go down in his­tory as a unique achieve­ment of your po­lit­i­cal ca­reer and a turn­ing point in the his­tory of the two Pun­jabs.

“Bark­ing dogs sel­dom bite!”

You need to tell it loud and clear that while you were phys­i­cally in Pak­istan, the In­dian Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Modi also sent a let­ter to the Pak Prime Min­is­ter, con­grat­u­lat­ing him and ex­press­ing a de­sire for peace in the sub-con­ti­nent. 

Those bay­ing for your blood are lack­eys of your erst­while party who can­not tol­er­ate that even though you went there at a per­sonal level, your tur­ban made you a kind of Sikh rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the com­mu­nity. You made your pres­ence and they lost the op­por­tu­nity. Your tur­ban has brought pain to them and it is ironic that the Pagdi Sam­bal Jatta body should op­pose you. See­ing all the noise on TV,  I say, “Bark­ing dogs sel­dom bite.” The con­fu­sion within your pre­sent party re­gard­ing your visit and the beau­ti­ful em­brace is typ­i­cal of this par­ty’s du­al­ism too to­wards Sikhs. 

“Who knows that you may be des­tined to be one of those who will be in­stru­men­tal in the re­al­i­sa­tion of the daily Ar­das of Sikhs for un­fet­tered reach to Sikh his­tor­i­cal places in the times to come.”

As it hap­pened and you too have ac­knowl­edged, Guru Sahib has blessed you dur­ing this visit. I hope this be­comes a turn­ing point in your life too, to reded­i­cate your life and work for the glory of Sikhs and wel­fare of mankind. Who knows that you maybe des­tined to be one of those who will be in­stru­men­tal in the re­al­i­sa­tion of the daily Ar­das of Sikhs for un­fet­tered reach to Sikh his­tor­i­cal places in the times to come.

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WSN wishes you well and stands be­hind you in the pre­sent hour. Let us all be par­tak­ers of the bless­ings of Guru Nanak.

Sin­cerely

Jag­mo­han Singh
Ed­i­tor, WSN