This Image Of PM Narendra Modi And Former PM Dr Manmohan Singh Embracing Each Other At Kartarpur Is Winning The Internet
PM Narendra Modi formally inaugurated the Integrated Check Post of the Kartarpur Corridor. Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh was also present as a guest in the function. Both leaders were caught by mediapersons hugging each other and exchanging pleasantries The images immediately went viral on social media.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally inaugurated the Integrated Check Post of the Kartarpur Corridor. Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh was also present as a guest in the function. Both PM Narendra Modi and Dr Manmohan Singh were caught by mediapersons hugging each other and exchanging pleasantries. The images immediately went viral on social media.
Punjab: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Former PM Dr.Manmohan Singh at inauguration of the Integrated Check Post of the #KartarpurCorridor at Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur. pic.twitter.com/xptNdQ0JPX
¡ª ANI (@ANI) November 9, 2019
Netizens were also quick to laud both leaders coming together and embracing despite their political differences.
Dono sage bhai jese dikhrehe hain??
¡ª Shreemanta kumar Hota (@HotaShreemanta) November 9, 2019
Loved the smile on Manmohanji¡¯s face!
¡ª Saibal Roy Choudhury (@saibalrc) November 9, 2019
WOW...@narendramodi is looking absolutely Indian SIKH
¡ª Sybaritic Stallion (@VAggarwal1977) November 9, 2019
Respect
¡ª pankaj gautam (@pankajg94234999) November 9, 2019
Wow
¡ª Information world (@pkhandsome17) November 9, 2019
PM Modi was accompanied by Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, Union Ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and Harsimrat Kaur Badal and actor and Gurdaspur lawmaker Sunny Deol at the inauguration.
The Integrated Check Post or the passenger terminal building is where pilgrims will get clearance to travel through the newly-built corridor. The check post will facilitate Indian pilgrims to visit Gurudwara Kartapur Sahib in Pakistan.
Blessed morning at the Shri Gurudwara Ber Sahib in Sultanpur Lodhi. pic.twitter.com/1lpwHRZbLT
¡ª Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 9, 2019
In the first-of its-kind occasion in seven decades, PM Modi sent the first lot of 500 pilgrims to visit Darbar Sahib, also called Kartarpur Sahib, the last resting place of first Sikh Guru Nanak Dev, in Narowal district in Pakistan's Punjab province.
PM Modi also thanked his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan for respecting the sentiments of India.
Reuters
"I thank all who have been associated with the construction of the corridor," he said, adding he also thanked "Imran Khan for understanding Indian sentiments, respecting and working in the way to the construction of the Kartarpur Corridor within timeframe".
"Visit to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib will become easy now," PM Modi said at the Kartarpur Corridor inauguration event before opening the state-of-the-art Integrated Check Post for the corridor that connects Dera Baba Nanak shrine here in Punjab's Gurdaspur district with the historic Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara across the border in Pakistan.
The event is ahead of the 550th birth anniversary of first Sikh master Guru Nanak Dev that falls on November 12.
Even the Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan congratulated the Sikh community on the 550th birth anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism.
In his message on the occasion of Kartarpur Sahib Corridor's opening, the Prime Minister said, "We believe that the road to prosperity of region and bright future of our coming generation lies in peace."
"Today we are not only opening the border, but also our hearts for the Sikh community," he said.