Stating that more than 90,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered in the 1971 Indo-Pak War, PM Narendra Modi Thursday said had he been in power at the time, he would have taken Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib from Pakistan before freeing their troops.
During Partition, Kartarpur Sahib, the place where Guru Nanak Dev spent his last years, fell in Pakistan’s Punjab. Modi blamed the Congress for the country’s Partition, saying they did it for the sake of power.
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“For 70 years, we could have a ‘darshan’ of Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara only with binoculars. I tell the Congress that in Bangladesh war, 90,000 Pakistan soldiers had surrendered… Had Modi been there at that time, he would have taken Kartarpur Sahib from them and then released their soldiers,” he said.