TIL Desk/National/Chandigarh/ Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has ticked off his cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu for hugging Pakistan army chief at the swearing-in ceremony of Imran Khan as the prime minister of the neighbouring country, terming his act as ‘wrong’.
“I think that was wrong for him to have shown the affection he did for the Pakistani army chief,” Amarinder Singh told reporters in Chandigarh, when asked for his comment on Sidhu hugging the Pak Army chief on Saturday.
Sidhu, who returned from Pakistan on Sunday, was the only Indian, who attended Khan’s swearing-in ceremony on an invitation by the cricketer-turned-politician. Besides hugging Pakistan army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Sidhu was also seen sitting next to the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) President Masood Khan, at the event.
On Sidhu being seated next to the PoK chief, Amarinder, however, gave him the benefit of doubt, saying he might not have known who he was. To another question, Amarinder said Sidhu had gone to Pakistan in his personal capacity.
