Navjot Singh Sidhu. | Photo Credit: IANS

New Delhi: After justifying his trip to Pakistan and his outrageous hug with Pakistan's Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu has now said that travel experience in Pakistan is better than South India. Sidhu was in Kasauli to participate in the 7th Khushwant Singh Literature Fest.

During the interaction, AAP MLA Kanwar Sandhu asked Sidhu about the cultural affinity between the two Punjabs to which he replied, “For me, when I travel to South, I can't understand the language. Not that I dont like the food, but I cannot have it for a long time, the culture is totally different. When I got to Pakistan, the language is the same, like you know, when you abuse in English 10 times, one abuse in Punjabi overpowers all.”

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It is quite bizarre that Sidhu clearly is taking every possible opportunity to demean his own country and praising Pakistan. A Senior Akali Dal leader said that Sidhu has become a Pakistan apologist.

Congress has said that this is nothing but Sidhu’s strategy to remain in news. BJP questioned Sidhu's Pak love and said that this totally unacceptable. BJP national spokesperson Nalin Kohli said that comparing South India with Pakistan is not only unjust but is condemnable as well.

Pakistan PM Imran Khan had backed Sidhu by calling him an “ambassador of peace” when he was criticised by the ruling BJP. “Those in India who targeted him are doing a great disservice to peace in the subcontinent - without peace our people can't progress,” Khan had said.