Ajnala Incident: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday took to Twitter and slammed the Sikh preacher and Khalistani sympathiser Amritpal Singh and his supporters. Mann on Twitter wrote that these who took the holy e book Guru Granth Sahib to a police station as a protect can not be called the ‘Waris’ of Punjab. Punjab Police in view of the Ajnala incident knowledgeable that the demonstrators barged into the police station brandishing swords and weapons and used the holy Guru Granth Sahib as a protect.
Punjab CM Mann’s comment
CM Mann’s remarks got here days after self-styled Sikh preacher and Khalistani sympathiser Amritpal Singh and his supporters, some of them brandishing swords and weapons, broke by barricades and barged right into a police station in Ajnala on the outskirts of the Amritsar metropolis on Thursday, extracting an assurance from the police that his aide and kidnapping case accused Lovepreet Singh would be launched.
What Mann Tweeted?
Amritpal, who heads an organisation called ‘Waris Punjab De’, and his supporters had introduced a automobile carrying a replica of the Guru Granth Sahib for holding “amrit sanchar” (a Sikh ceremony) on the police station. “Those who take the Guru Granth Sahib to police stations as a shield cannot be called ‘waris’ of Punjab and Punjabiyat in any way,” Mann stated in a tweet in Punjabi.
Punjab Police had stated on Friday that the demonstrators had used the holy Guru Granth Sahib as a protect and attacked police personnel in a cowardly method, leaving six of them injured. Lovepreet Singh walked out of jail on Friday.
Dubai-returned Amritpal Singh was final yr apointed head of ‘Waris Punjab De’, which was based by actor and activist Deep Sidhu who died in a street accident in February final yr. The occasion was held at Moga’s Rode, the native village of slain militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.
(with inputs from PTI)
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