Kartarpur border opening to help BJP in General elections, says Rana Afzal
- By Web Desk -
- Nov 28, 2018
KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Rana Afzal on Tuesday said that endorsement of Pakistan’s decision of Kartarpur Border’s opening to benefit Indian ruling party in upcoming general elections.
Expressing his views while talking to ARY News, he said, general polls in India are right on the corner and the decision to endorse the Pakistan’s initiative of opening Kartarpur border to help Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), the ruling party of India.
“Backing of the decision aimed to win hearts of Sikh voters by BJP as general polls are just becoming nearer in India “, he continued.
Terming the act a good omen, Rana Afzal said the decision of opening Kartarpur crossing to help Sikhs in performing their rituals
Meanwhile, preparations for groundbreaking ceremony of Kartarpur Border Corridor have been finalized and Prime Minister Imran Khan will lay the foundation stone of the corridor today.
A high-level delegation and a group of Indian journalists will also take part in the ceremony. Former Indian cricketer, Navjot Singh Sidhu, has already arrived in Pakistan.
He thanked Prime Minister Khan for his decision to open the Kartarpur Border Corridor, and said the initiative had ‘won the hearts of 120 million Sikhs.’
The construction work of the corridor will begin after the ground breaking ceremony today.
The formal opening of the work of the Kartarpur Corridor in India had begun on Nov 26 after a formal ceremony.
After Pakistan’s initiative to open the Kartarpur Corridor on the 550th birth anniversary of Sikhism founder Baba Guru Nanak next year, India last week had agreed and decided to build the Kartarpur road corridor up to the border with Pakistan.
Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara at the bank of Ravi river in Pakistan is about four km from the Dera Baba Nanak shrine.
The Sikh community was demanding for a long time to build a corridor linking India’s border district of Gurdaspur to historic gurudwara in Narowal, Pakistan. The corridor will give Indian pilgrims easy access to the shrine in Kartarpur.