Former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has urged the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote the re-opening of the Kartarpur corridor as soon as possible, saying that Sikhs all over the world are striving not to visit Guru Nanak Dev’s last resting place on his 551th Parkash Parab last month.
Mrs Badal raised the matter at the meeting of the Committee on Foreign Relations, of which she is a member, on Friday.
She said that she had not received a sufficient response from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as to why the corridor was still closed. “External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar should intervene and take up the issue with the Lands Port Authority of India to get the corridor reopened at the earliest,” she said.
She said I am of the firm opinion that if the whole country will open up and even the elections to the Assembly can take place, there is no excuse why the Kartarpur corridor should not be reopened.
The Bathinda MP said that it has been months since the re-opening of pilgrimage sites across the world as well as the country that had been partly or entirely closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
