Former India opener-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir on Saturday (November 20) lambasted Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu for calling Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan his ‘big brother’.

Taking to Twitter, Gambhir wrote: “Send your son or daughter to the border and then call a terrorist state’s head your big brother” and also used ‘spineless’ and ‘disgusting’ as hashtags.

Earlier on Saturday, Sidhu, the former India batter, visited Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan where he called Imran his ‘elder brother’.

“Imran Khan is my elder brother. I am greatly honoured. He gave us a lot of love,” Sidhu was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.

“I am thankful to Imran Khan for taking the first step and on the other side India responded with two steps. I already said that those favouring the corridor would have blessings and those opposing it had no value. I request Modi sahab and Khan sahab to open the doors. Trade has a $275,000 crore potential,” he further added.

Apart from Gambhir, several other BJP leaders lashed out at Sidhu for his comments across the border.

In fact, Sidhu’s own party’s parliamentarian Manish Tewari also criticized him, tweeting: “Imran Khan may be anybody's elder brother but for India he is that cat's paw of Pakistan’s deep state ISI-military combine that drones arms and narcotics into Punjab and sends terrorists on a daily basis across LoC in Jammu and Kashmir. Have we forgotten the martyrdom of our soldiers in Poonch so soon?”