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Sambit Patra Lashes Out At Sidhu For Big Brother Comment

New Delhi : A few hours after Punjab Congress Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu passed a controversial statement describing Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan as his โ€˜big brother,โ€™ Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Sambit Patra slammed the PPC chief for his remarks.

Sidhu, made the statement while interacting with the CEO of the Kartarpur project. The Congress leader had reached Pakistanโ€™s Kartarpur to pay obeisance in Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara. Patra linked Rahul Gandhi to Imran Khan by highlighting Sidhuโ€™s earlier statement where he had called Gandhi his โ€˜captainโ€™.

BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra also took a dig at other Congress leaders for similar controversial statements. โ€œCongress leaders like Salman Khurshid, Rashid Alvi, Mani Shankar Aiyar and above all Rahul Gandhi curses Hindutva and Navjot Sidhu goes and praises Pakistan. There is a design and pattern in Congress party and in that way they give statements,โ€ Patra said. Is this coincidental? No. Salman Khurshid compared Hindutva to ISIS, Rashid Alviโ€™s statement on ISIS, and Mani Shankar Aiyarโ€™s praise for Mughal and Babar, itโ€™s their way. Icing on the cake is Rahul Gandhiโ€™s recent statementโ€™s on Hindutva,โ€ he added.

Further asserting that border states fall under the sensitive category for security reasons, the BJP leader said that leaders from there should give mature and knowledgeable statements. โ€œThis is not the lone statement from Sidhu. Earlier he had called Imran Khan โ€“ โ€˜Mera yaar, dildaarโ€™. He had hugged Army General Bajwa also,โ€ said the BJP leader.

Referring to Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshiโ€™s statement calling Hindutva ideology a โ€œthreat to global securityโ€ the BJP leader said that it is similar to what Rahul Gandhi had also said. He reminded Sidhuโ€™s remarks on South Indian states. โ€œI want to remind South Indian people what Sidhu had said earlier. He had preferred Pakistan over South India and said that he understands Pakistanโ€™s food and language better than South Indiaโ€™s. He had the audacity to compare South India with Pakistan,โ€ Sambit Patra said.

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