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‘Instead of doing Bhangra…’: Amarinder’s double attack on Channi over interception of Pak drone
Amarinder Singh slammed Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi in a post on Twitter. “Instead of doing Bhangra all day CM Punjab should advice his home minister to get active and come out of denial mode,” he said.
Former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday took a dig at the Congress-led state government after a Chinese-made drone from Pakistan was intercepted in Ferozpur near the international border.
The drone, which was flying at a low height, was brought down by the Border Security Force (BSF) late on Friday.
Amarinder Singh slammed Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi in a post on Twitter. “Instead of doing Bhangra all day CM Punjab should advice his home minister to get active and come out of denial mode,” he said.
The former chief minister was referring to Channi’s bhangra performance at an event earlier in December.
The BSF has shot down two such drones in the Punjab frontier area that originated in Pakistan and were carrying arms and ammunition in the past as well.
BSF director general (DG) Pankaj Kumar Singh told reporters on November 30 that 67 drones have been sighted along the border in Punjab and Jammu areas this year.
"Right now, the frequency of drones that are coming to our country are fairly small and these are by-and-large Chinese-made drones...they are very good...and carrying small payloads and in 95 per cent cases they are carrying drugs," Singh said.
Amarinder Singh's next jibe was at Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu, with whom he had a power tussle when he was with the Congress party.
“Also tell your party president (if he listens to you) to ask his elder brother Imran Khan to stop trying to disturb our border state of Punjab!” Amarinder Singh tweeted.
Navjot Singh Sidhu in November called Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan as his 'bada bhai' (elder brother), attracting widespread flak from political parties. The cricketer-turned-politician also faced condemnation from his party colleagues.
