Stop doing bhangra all day, Capt Amarinder tells Punjab CM Charanjit Channi after BSF intercepts drone in Ferozepur

Tribune Web Desk
Chandigarh, December 18

Former chief minister Amarinder Singh criticised his successor Charanjit Singh Channi for remaining in denial about security issues in the state—a development that comes after press reports said that the Border Security Force had intercepted a drone from Pakistan in Punjab’s Ferozepur.  

BSF shoots down drone along Pakistan border in Punjab’s Ferozepur

“Instead of doing Bhangra all day CM Punjab should advice (sic) his home minister to get active and come out of denial mode,” Capt Amarinder Singh said in the tweet while also taking a dig at his arch political rival Navjot Singh Sidhu. “Also tell your party president (if he listens to you) to ask his elder brother Imran Khan to stop trying to disturb our border state of Punjab,” the tweet said.

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi was spotted doing some Bhangra steps at an event earlier this week. He was also seen dancing in Kapurthala in September.

Reports said BSF shot down a drone that was caught on the Indian side of the international border with Pakistan on Friday night. The drone, a China-made hexacopter with four power batteries that weighed around 23 kgs and could carry a payload of around 10 kg according to reports, was suspected to have come from Pakistan’s side of the border.

The drone was carrying no payload, the reports said. 

Sidhu, an international cricketer-turned-politician just like Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, called the latter ‘bada bhai’ while on a visit to Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara in Pakistan. His remarks in praise of Kham, a former world-cup winning captain of Pakistan and Sidhu’s contemporary, kicked up a storm and drew condemnation from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiromani Akali Dal.

Capt Amarinder Singh stepped down as chief minister of Punjab in September—the culmination of a long-running internal feud he had with Sidhu, who had been a minister in his own cabinet four years ago. Capt Amarinder resigned from the Congress—a party he’d been associated with for most of his political career except for a period of 14 years between 1984 and 1998—just over a month later and announced his own party, the Punjab Lok Congress. He formally announced an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday for Punjab assembly elections due early next year.