NEW DELHI – India’s Home Minister Rajnath Singh has left a message forPrime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan.

He has wished success to Prime Minister Imran Khan.

He has said that he would like to see him perform well on the politicalturf as he had been doing on the cricket field.

“There is a new captain in Pakistan, he had been playing on the cricketfield till now. Now, he has to play on the political field. Let’s see howsuccessful he is, we pray for his strength to succeed,” he said whiletalking to journalists after an event here in Lucknow, capital of India’sUttar Pradesh state.

On the Khalistan agitation, the Indian minister said that it would not beallowed to be revived. Despite over 10 lakh Sikhs living in the UnitedKingdom, he said that only 1,500 to 2,000 took part in the recent protestand not a single Sikh from India took part.

He was referring to a recent protest in support of a referendum for anindependent Punjab. To another question, he blamed that the hand ofPakistan’s intelligence agency has also come out in the open in thismovement for separation.

To a question, the Indian minister termed the Kashmir issue a chronicproblem. “This (Kashmir issue) will take time to be resolved. But it willbe realised,” he said. On Saturday, life returned to normal in theIndian-held Kashmir after two-day of the strike, called by the Hurriyatleadership against the legal challenge to the Article 35-A of the IndianConstitution.

On mob lynching, Rajnath said that it was unfortunate and should nothappen. “But the biggest mob lynching took place in 1984,” he said in anapparent reference to the anti-Sikh riots. He said that the government hastaken the lynching incidents very seriously and a committee has been set upunder the home affairs secretary.