Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and urged her to help initiate dialogue with Pakistan on the opening of the Kartarpur Sahib corridor for Sikh pilgrims to visit Pakistan.
However, Union Minister and Akali leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal tweeted that Swaraj "reprimanded" Sidhu for "messing up" the issue of the Kartarpur Sahib corridor dialogue and accused him of "misusing" the political clearance granted to him in visiting Pakistan recently to attend Imran Khan's swearing-in ceremony.
"External Affairs Minister [Swaraj] reprimands Navjot Sidhu for messing up Kartarpur Sahib corridor dialogue and misusing political clearance granted for private visit by hugging military Chief responsible for killing our soldiers," Badal tweeted.
Sources said Sidhu met Swaraj along with another senior Congress leader and a former Rajya Sabha MP to discuss the Kartarpur Sahib issue with her.
Sidhu had courted controversy by hugging Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and claimed that he did so as Bajwa told him that the Pakistan government was working on the opening of the Kartarpur Sahib corridor.
