International airport at Amritsar should be given due share as per Canada-India agreement: Gurcharan Singh Grewal

Amritsar, December 6 – The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has strongly objected to ignorance of Punjab and especially Sri Guru Ramdas Ji International Airport at Amritsar in the new agreement regarding flights between Canada and India.

SGPC spokesperson and general secretary Gurcharan Singh Grewal in a statement issued here today said that this is a discriminatory attitude towards the Guru Nagari (the city of Guru) Amritsar, due to which there is resentment among the Sikhs in India and abroad. He said that under the new agreement, airports have been included for flights from many cities in India, but Punjabis and especially Sikhs have been discriminated against by ignoring Amritsar. He said that during the budget session of the SGPC on March 30, 2022 led by SGPC President Harjinder Singh Dhami, a special resolution was passed for demanding direct flights from Sri Amritsar and was sent to the relevant ministries of the Government of India, but still the government deliberately did not give its due share of flights to Punjab. This is unfair to Punjabis, he said.

He  said that there are a large number of Sikhs living all over the world and the number of Punjabis and Sikhs is not small even in Canada. People living in Canada related to Punjab face many problems for transportation. While they have to bear the loss of their valuable time to reach Punjab from Delhi, this also puts a huge financial burden on them.

SGPC general secretary said that this discrimination against Punjab should stop. He appealed to the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi that the due share of flights from Canada to India should be given from the Sri Guru Ramdas Ji International Airport located in Amritsar.