Punjab CM Amarinder Singh has declined to travel to Pakistan for inauguration of Kartarpur Corridor. He has also warned about a possible hidden agenda from Pakistan in opening the corridor now, rather than earlier. On this issue, I can get his point and the threat appears real.
Here is a piece of news published by India Today:
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday lashed out at Islamabad over a video clip that featured Khalistani separatists, saying this showed Pakistan's hidden agenda in opening the Kartarpur corridor.
The video was released by Pakistan on Monday just days ahead of the inauguration of the corridor that will connect the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Punjab with Darbar Sahib at Kartarpur in Pakistan.
The clip also showed a poster of a banned pro-Khalistani group, Sikhs for Justice, which is pushing for Sikh Referendum 2020 as part of its separatist agenda.
Commenting on the video clip, Singh told reporters, "All this is what I have been saying from day one, that Pakistan has a hidden agenda here."
Later, in a strongly-worded statement, he warned against the "agenda" of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence behind Islamabad's decision to allow access to the Sikh shrine through the corridor across the border.
"Even though the corridor marked the realisation of the long-cherished dream of the entire Sikh community, including me, to pay respects at the historic shrine, India cannot afford to ignore the ISI threat that was attached to it," he said.
"This is what I have been cautioning against all along, they (the ISI) have a negative agenda behind it. We have to be very careful," he said.
The video, he said, only exposed the true intent of the ISI.
"On the one hand, they are seemingly showing us compassion and humanity, and on the other, they seem intent on using the corridor to woo the Indian Sikhs to promote the ISI-backed 2020 Khalistan Referendum and creating sleeper cells here," he added.
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