NEW DWLHI -Frustrated Indian government takes down Pakistani PM ImranKhan’s billboards in state capital.
In the Indian city of Amritsar, billboards that lauded Prime MinisterImran Khan and Indian minister Navjot Singh Sidhu were taken down onThursday.
According to reports, the Sikh community had put on the billboards toexpress their happiness at the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor. Theycredited Minister Sidhu and PM Khan for being the “real heroes who made theKartarpur Corridor a reality”.
The billboards were put on by Amritsar’s municipal councillor, Harpal SinghVerkha, who like Sidhu, is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC).The INC forms the ruling government in the Indian state of Punjab, which asa party, is thought to be friendlier to Pakistan than the Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP), which forms the government on the Indian federal level.
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Sidhu has already been granted permission by the Indian government toattend the corridor’s inauguration in Pakistan on November 9, and wasissued a visa by Pakistani authorities earlier on Thursday.
Mostly Punjabi-speaking, the Indian Sikh community has announced it willprotest the removal of the billboards. The Indian state of Punjab, like NewDelhi, was also one of the zones of protest against the BJP-led move tonullify Indian-occupied Kashmir’s special status.
