Reiterating that BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi was alien to the idea of India and not at all secular, former Chief Minister and Congress candidate from Amritsar Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday asked him why he did not pay obeisance at the Darbar Sahib. “Or does paying obeisance at a place like Darbar Sahib go contrary to your beliefs and worldviewIJ” he asked.
Capt Amarinder, in his statement, pointed out that Modi recently visited Punjab including Amritsar. “It is for the first time that some leader, and that too the one who aspires to be the Prime Minister of a secular India, avoided to pay obeisance at Darbar Sahib, that has its doors open on all four sides for all people no matter which race, religion or region they belong to,” he added.
Senior congress leader said that various heads of States, including Queen Victoria, have come to pay obeisance at the Darbar Sahib, and “Modi in sheer arrogance or out of his communal and sectarian beliefs chose to avoid it which is not liked by the people here in Punjab.”