{"id":306359,"date":"2018-12-01T06:34:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T06:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306359"},"modified":"2018-12-01T06:34:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T06:34:04","slug":"rahul-gandhi-never-asked-me-to-visit-pakistan-went-on-imran-khans-invite-says-sidhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-never-asked-me-to-visit-pakistan-went-on-imran-khans-invite-says-sidhu\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rahul Gandhi never asked me to visit Pakistan, went on Imran Khan&#8217;s invite&#8217;, says Sidhu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300991 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/nsidhu-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/nsidhu-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/nsidhu-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/nsidhu-553x420.jpg 553w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/nsidhu.jpg 653w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Barely hours after claiming that Congress President Rahul Gandhi who asked him to visit Pakistan to attend the ground-breaking ceremony of Kartarpur corridor, Punjab Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu took a U-turn on his statement and said he went there on the invite of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sidhu said that Gandhi had \u201cnever asked\u201d him to go to Pakistan and that he had visited the neighbouring country on the invite of Imran Khan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cGet your facts right before you distort them, Rahul Gandhi Ji never asked me to go to Pakistan. The whole world knows I went on Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s personal invite,\u201d Navjot Sidhu tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier on Friday, Sidhu, while addressing a press conference in Hyderabad had implied that his visit to Pakistan had Gandhi\u2019s blessings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sidhu had said, \u201cmy captain is Rahul Gandhi, he has sent me everywhere.&#8221; Notably, Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh had said that he had asked Sidhu to reconsider his decision to attend the Kartarpur Corridor event in Pakistan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Amarinder had himself declined Pakistan\u2019s invite to attend the ceremony in Pakistan, citing the recent terror attack in Amritsar as well as the killing of Indian soldiers and civilians in Jammu and Kashmir.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Navjot Sidhu had attended the ground-breaking ceremony of Kartarpur corridor in Pakistan on November 28 has been mired in controversy since then.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barely hours after claiming that Congress President Rahul Gandhi who asked him to visit Pakistan to attend the ground-breaking ceremony of Kartarpur corridor, Punjab Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu took a U-turn on his statement and said he went there on the invite of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan.\u00a0 Sidhu said that Gandhi had \u201cnever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[5275,3867,9829,1516,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306360,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306359\/revisions\/306360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}