Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal Tuesday called Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu "biggest traitor" of the country and demanded the cricketer-turned politician's call details be investigated "as he is in constant touch with Pakistanis". The former deputy chief minister accused Sidhu of only being interested in staying in the limelight by raising pious issues like Kartarpur Sahib corridor "without any seriousness".

Badal asserted that Sidhu was reprimanded by Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj for allegedly meddling in the Kartarpur Corridor issue. "Sidhu hugged the Pakistan Army chief when he went to Pakistan (to participate in the oath taking ceremony of Pakistan PM Imran Khan). He embraced their Army chief who orders killing of our soldiers at the border. There cannot be a bigger traitor than Sidhu," Badal said while talking to reporters here.