BJP team meets President Kovind, Amit Shah over Kartarpur corridor

New Delhi, November 15

A day after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a delegation of BJP leaders from Punjab and Delhi today called on President Ram Nath Kovind and Home Minister Amit Shah requesting them to reopen the Kartarpur corridor so that pilgrims could visit the gurdwara on the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev on November 19.

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Delhi BJP leader RP Singh, who was part of the delegation that met Shah, said the Home Minister “assured us of positively considering it”.

The corridor was closed following the pandemic. A memorandum submitted by the delegation stated: “Gurdwara Darbar Sahib shrine went to Pakistan at the time of Partition even though it is located just 3 km from the border. Subsequent governments did nothing to reopen the corridor”. “PM Modi eventually reopened the corridor honouring the sentiments of Sikhs across the world,” it said. — TNS