Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, on Wednesday, appealed to the Sikh community to stand by PM Modi and the BJP. "Finally we're getting justice for 1984. Finally, we're getting Kartarpur Sahab corridor, if you don't stand by PM Modi and this government, I can assure that the Congress and the Gandhi family will derail this on some pretext of talks and terror," she told ANI.
"If Punjab was divided, it was Jawaharlal Nehru's decision. That border could easily have been 2km more. To suppress the Sikhs and to demoralize them, after Jawaharlal Nehru broke Punjab, Indira Gandhi came and attacked the Golden temple.
"[Indira Gandhi] killed thousands of innocents there. Then comes her son Rajiv Gandhi who then for his political reasons massacres millions of Sikhs all over. And now Rahul Gandhi speaks the language of Pakistan," she said.
In December, PM Modi had said that Kartarpur was in Pakistan today because then Congress leaders had no idea about the importance of Guru Nanak Dev and had no respect for Sikh sentiments.
"The credit of the Kartarpur corridor goes to your vote. Correcting Congress mistakes was my destiny," he said.
The foundation stone for the much-awaited corridor linking Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan's Kartarpur — the final resting place of Sikh faith's founder Guru Nanak Dev— to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India's Gurdaspur district was laid the same month.
-Inputs from PTI
