New Delhi: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday said that he had no objection to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visiting Punjab but urged him to keep anti-Indian pro-Khalistani elements operating from Canadian soil in check.

New Delhi: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday said that he had no objection to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visiting Punjab but urged him to keep anti-Indian pro-Khalistani elements operating from Canadian soil in check.

Trudeau is welcome to come but we will not be cowed down by the threats of forces such as the Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), said the Chief Minister, dismissing as irrelevant the outfit’s warning that it deal with anyone trying to remove the provocative referendum posters it had put up across Punjab.

Captain Amarinder was responding to questions at the Indian Express Adda programme, where he spoke candidly and at length on a wide range of issues of national and state interest, including Indo-Pak relations, GST, SYL, farm debt waiver, drugs, unemployment, presidential elections, Congress fortunes and more.

Stressing that opening of the Indo-Pak border would be of immense benefit to Punjab, the Chief Minister, in response to a question, expressed the hope that someday the dream of having dinner in Lahore (Pakistan) and lunch in Amritsar (India) would become a reality. While the people of both countries welcome one another with open arms, the problem lies at government to government level, he said. The Chief Minister informed the audience that his government would dedicate the 1947 partition museum to the nation in August this year.