On Wednesday night, Surinder Dalla media advisor to PPCC President Navjot Singh Sidhu said that Sidhu will visit Shri Kartarpur Sahib to pay obeisance on November 20. He further added that Navjot Singh Sidhu has applied to visit the shrine on Tuesday.
“Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu to visit Kartarpur Sahib to pay obeisance, on Nov 20th,” said Surinder Dalla, media advisor to Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh, on November 16 announced that the entire Punjab Cabinet will pay obeisance at Sri Kartarpur Sahib on November 18 as a part of the first delegation after reopening of Kartarpur corridor. Navjot Singh Sidhu was not allowed to be a part of the CM-led ‘jatha’ and was later allowed to visit the shrine on November 20, Saturday.
The Kartarpur Corridor, which connects Pakistan's Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, the ultimate resting place of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev, to the Gurdaspur district's Dera Baba Nanak shrine, reopened on Wednesday. Gurpurab, which commemorates Guru Nanak's birth anniversary, will be observed on November 19.
Due to the Covid epidemic, the pilgrimage to the Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara was halted in March 2020.