Chandigarh: Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh after a Pakistani drone was sighted near the International Border and shot down by the Border Security Force (BSF). ) on Saturday targeted Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and State Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu.
Singh said Chief Minister Channi should ask his Home Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa to “be proactive”. “Instead of doing Bhangra all day, the Punjab CM should advise his home minister to be proactive and avoid denying things,” the former chief minister said in his tweet, tagging a news of the downing of the drone.
A Chinese-made drone “spotted down and shot down” near Wan border post in Ferozepur sector at around 11:10 pm on Friday, the BSF said in a statement.
It said the black flying object was shot down about 300 meters from the international border and 150 meters from the border fence. Chief Minister Channi was seen performing Bhangra at an event earlier this week. In September also he was seen performing the folk dance of Punjab at an event in Kapurthala.
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Singh also attacked Sidhu, the Punjab unit president of the Congress in the same tweet. He told Channi, “Also tell your party president, if he listens to you, to ask his elder brother Imran Khan to stop trying to harass our border state of Punjab!”
Former cricketer Sidhu had called Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan his “elder brother” during his visit to the Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara across the border last month. His remarks were condemned by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). Singh had resigned as Chief Minister of Punjab in September following a power struggle with Sidhu. Later, he formed his own party and has now joined hands with BJP to contest the 2022 Punjab Assembly elections.