Following his visit to Pakistan in September this year, Sidhu, a Congress leader and minister in Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s cabinet, had said that Islamabad was willing to open a corridor for pilgrims to access the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib (also called Kartarpur Sahib) located in Kartarpur on the banks of the river Ravi in Pakistan. The site became a den of smugglers and drug addicts as there was not many around for the upkeep of the Gurdwara.