Sidhu stirs new controversy, prefers Pakistan over South India

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Sidhu stirs new controversy, prefers Pakistan over South India
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Published: October 13, 2018
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Former cricketer was trying to highlight cultural affinity Indian Punjab shares with Pakistan. SCREENGRAB/FILE

Indian cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu on Saturday once again stirred more controversy by saying that going to Pakistan is better than South India owing to the cultural similarities, Firstpost reported.

Sidhu, who was speaking at a literary festival in Kasol on Saturday, said, “If I go to Tamil Nadu, I don’t understand the language. Not that I don’t like the food, but I can’t take it for long. That culture is totally different.”

“But if I travel to Pakistan there is no difficulty. The language is the same and everything there is just amazing,” he added.

The Punjab tourism and culture minister was trying to highlight the cultural affinity the Indian state shares with Pakistan.

Notwithstanding, by drawing a comparison over the sensitive lingual divide issue, Sidhu, as a result, has perhaps compounded his troubles in the Indian media.

Less than two months ago, the former cricketer courted controversy by embracing Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on his visit to Pakistan for Prime Minister Imran Khan’s inauguration as the country’s premier.

Sidhu also clarified that his hug to Pakistan’s army chief in his own style.

“My Jhappi was no conspiracy, it was no Rafale deal … if somebody tells me that they are ready to open the Kartarpur corridor.”

The article originally appeared in Firstpost

 

[Imran Khan]

Rahul becomes Prime Minister of India or Pakistan?
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BJP says Rahull is speaking the language of the pakistan by targeting the government on the deal.
In the mind of Congress party President Rahul Gandhi, the question will be whether in India try to become Prime Minister or turn Pakistan, where he is very popular according to the ruling BJP and who is as India's next prime minister. Wants to see

The problem is that only a few weeks ago, the new government has taken charge in pakistan and the current government in India is reaching its end. Who would wait so much, if anyone had a place in Rahul Gandhi then he would think that before he traveled in India, he did not talk, then he would try in Pakistan.


Anyway, he has made a lot of difficulty with the idea of "Shiva Bhakti" (the devotee of the Hindu show of Hindus). That week, when his election constituencies went to Amaty, it seems that a leader of the BJP is getting welcome, his politics is now being attributed to "Software Hindutva" and Hindutva is the platform on which the BJP Understand your monopoly.

And on the deal with rafale Combat aircraft deals. Rahul Gandhi is speaking Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "Commander in the lies", sometimes he says that he was called a thief by the French President Francois Olandand, sometimes he says that his (country's) watchman has become a thief and that He dealt with rafale war planes with France, and pressed France to "choose as a partner", he would choose Anil Ambani's company's Reliance Defense.

This deal is about Rs 60000 crore and the aircraft maker Dasu has to pay about Rs. 30,000 crores to business indian companies under "Offset Clauses".

The President of the france said that the choice of Reliance Defense was on India's insistence. Rahul Gandhi claims that the planes have been very expensive, Anil Ambani is close to Prime Minister, he has huge debt on banks and there is no experience of making the re-plane a plane.

These are the conditions in which BJP leader Rahul Gandhi is saying "Clown Prince" (Prince of Persia), sometimes challenging their religious beliefs, sometimes raises questions on their mental balance and sometimes on their patriotic .

In India's politics today as much as Pakistan sales like nothing else. Last year, Prime Minister Modi had said that in the assembly elections of Gujarat, Shri Ahmed Patel wants to be the Chief Minister of the state (which is a Muslim and the moderator of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi) is the Chief Minister and there is a secret meeting in Delhi. There was a Pakistani leader and former Congress Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attended.

Later it came to know that this "secret meeting" was a former Indian army chief and several diplomats who had served in Pakistan. Man Shankar Aadir leader leader Shankar Shrestha had honored his friend and former Foreign Minister Khursheed Mahmood Kasuri in Pakistan and talked only about the relations between India and Pakistan. But who goes to these barracks?


Image caption Rahul Gandhi said himself (the country's) watchman has become a thief.
After the election, an analyst said that now Pakistan can return home for a few days! But India is such a big country that there is always an election. So this holiday could not last for a long time.

Now the BJP says that the Rifle deal is targeting the government by targeting Rahul Gandhi's language and his statements strengthen the neighboring country pakistan.

Federal Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told Tuesday that Rahul is playing in Pakistan's hands and BJP spokesperson Sam Patra revealed on Monday that it was unusual: 'BJP President Amit Shah has questioned that What (is India) being an international alliance? (In this briefing) we will present three Pakistani leaders to prove, why this question is important. First of all, Pakistan's current Prime Minister Fouad Chaudhary, who has hit India by referring Rahul Gandhi's Tweets and not only Pakistan's former interior minister Rehman Malik says, 'Sir, Rahul is next to you Prime Minister, because he talks with the journalists in talks with him. 'Who are those who want Rahul Gandhi to go forward?' Pakistan wants Rahul to go forward, you see that all the people in Pakistan want Rahul to go ahead.

And then the big question: Is this unity unanimously in Pakistan and Congress's thinking? 'I will say, this is not a conspiracy but a conspiracy.'

Apparently this strategy is and in view of many analysts, bringing in India a bargain gives us the hope that the BJP has lost the war of BJP on "RPIL" deals, namely, the Congress attacks are creating an impression. There is something wrong in that deal and the government has failed to overthrow the impression.

The deal of Rifle is not going to be somewhere else, and the next year, Pakistan will not be able to easily get rest of Indian parliamentary elections.

ow does the color change?

But it must have been in the mind of Rahul Gandhi that the BJP leader, Atal Bahari Vajpayee stood in Parliament after the 1971 war against Pakistan, and his grandmother and his prime minister, Indra Gandhi " Darga "(the goddess of power, which is considered a sign of righteousness above evil), is the BJP now telling them the agent of Pakistan!




Last week when India had announced that the Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj would meet his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi in New York, then the Congress party was asking the Prime Minister that he was a fifty sixth-inch chest to pakistan .What did they mention so much to teach lessons?
How does the color change?

And yes, as someone said it is also a 'Business Cooperation' for Pakistan, and pakistan should receive the Royalty on the use of its name in Indian politics

 

[Gadkari]

Is siddhu trying to make sure that BJP win all elections in India ?


I suspect after migrating to Pappu's party, he has become a pappu himself. Never seen a politician shoot himself in the foot so many times in such a short span.

 

[hussain0216]

He has a point

 

[flameboard]

People are so confused why there are two Punjabs with the same culture. Sidhu is pointing out they're pretty much the same people.

 

[Areesh]

I won't be surprised if sidhu would die a "natural death" like om puri

 

[Srinivas]

Congress is scoring an own goal!

 

[Globalwarrior]

God bless this guy !!

 

[Indus Pakistan]

He has a point

The reality is Dravid India might as well be on another continent. There is clear divide between Ganga and Dravid India. Sikhoos are actually a Indus people [thus have a convergence with Pakistan] and are going to be drowned in the swamp of Gangoo/Dravids as they only make a tiny 2% of the population.

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

Sidhu is correct. He speaks the same language as Pakistan.

 

[Gadkari]

Sidhu is correct. He speaks the same language as Pakistan.

Finally something we can both agree on.

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

Sidhu is correct. He speaks the same language as Pakistan.

He speaks Punjabi, a language spoken by around 2% of India and 50% of Pakistan. How hard is it to comprehend?

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

He speaks Punjabi, a language spoken by around 2% of India and 50% of Pakistan. How hard is it to comprehend?

Pushtuns in KPK who speak Pashto feel at home when they visit Southern Afghanistan than when they visit Lahore. Why is it so hard to understand and accept?

 

[ranjeet]

Good to know, I wonder if he would speak about the cultural enrichment youth of Indian Punjab gets from across the border though?

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

Is siddhu trying to make sure that BJP win all elections in India ?


I suspect after migrating to Pappu's party, he has become a pappu himself. Never seen a politician shoot himself in the foot so many times in such a short span.

Congress is scoring an own goal!

I still cannot decide if it was BJP's masterstroke to have Sidhu join Congress or was it Rahul's Masterstroke to bring down Captain Amarinder Singh.

Either way Captain saab has a major problem at handle.

Looks like Captain Amarinder Singh would be forced to leave congress to form his own party to get rid of Sidhu.