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Navjot Singh Sidhu takes a U-turn, says 'Rahul Gandhi never asked me to visit Pakistan, went on Imran Khan's invite'

“Get your facts right before you distort them, Rahul Gandhi Ji never asked me to go to Pakistan," Sidhu tweeted.

Edited by: India TV News Desk New Delhi Updated on: December 01, 2018 13:58 IST
Navjot Singh Sidhu Rahul Gandhi
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Sidhu has said that Rahul Gandhi's had asked him to attend Kartarpur Sahib Corridor opening ground breaking ceremony. (File Photo)

Barely hours after he described Rahul Gandhi as 'captain' and claimed it was the Congress president who asked him to visit Pakistan for Kartarpur corridor opening event, Navjot Singh Sidhu took a U-turn and said he went there on the invite of Imran Khan. 

“Get 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’s personal invite,” Sidhu tweeted. 

Sidhu had attended the groundbreaking ceremony of Kartarpur Sahib corridor in Pakistan on November 28.

“Rahul Gandhi is my captain. It is he who sent me to Pakistan. Rahul Gandhi is the captain of the captain (Amarinder) also,” Sidhu has told the media. The cricketer-turned-politician has claimed 50-100 Congress leaders, including Shashi Tharoor, Harish Rawat and Randeep Surjewala “patted” him on his back for the visit.

Also Read: My ‘Captain’ Rahul Gandhi sent me to Pakistan, Amarinder like father to me: Navjot Singh Sidhu

n the controversy over his photograph with Khalistani leader Gopal Singh Chawla, the Punjab minister said 10,000 people took selfies with him and he did not know the man.  

“When 10,000 people are taking selfies with you, how do you know who is Chawla? How? This is absolute rubbish. Last time when I went to Pakistan I was sitting with someone who was again controversial.

“Am I supposed to see where I sit. When you are going to another country, you are looked after by them. Anybody who comes to me...I don’t break hearts...come here and take a photograph,” he said, adding the man identified as Chawla was seen “everywhere” during the trip, including with Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal.

WATCH: Sidhu takes a U-turn over 'Rahul Gandhi sent me to Pakistan' statement

(With inputs from PTI)

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