A purported video of fugitive, pro-Khalistan preacher Amritpal Singh surfaced on social media platforms on Wednesday, in which he’s seen interesting to the chief priest of Akal Takht, the best temporal seat of Sikhs, to carry a Sarbat Khalsa (congregation of Sikhs) to debate points associated to Punjab and the quom (the Sikh neighborhood).
“I appeal to Sikhs from across the globe to join Sarbat Khalsa on the day of Baishaki, where a discussion should be held on issues of our quom (community). For long, people of our community have been organising small fronts on different issues. If we want to get the issues of Punjab solved, if we want to get the Sikh youth released, if we want to fight against excesses against Sikhs… to raise voice against all these is our duty, and hence I appeal to the chief priest to hold Sarbat Khalsa and appeal all Sikhs to join,” Mr. Singh, the chief of ‘Waris Punjab De’, says in the video.
The 30-year-old, who gave the police the slip on March 18, after what seems to have been a botched-up police operation to seize him in Jalandhar district, stated his arrest was in the palms of the almighty.
Politics surrounding the problem continues to escalate. The Shiromani Akali Dal on Wednesday requested Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to apologise to the Sikhs for insulting the Akal Takht in addition to its Jathedar (chief priest), Giani Harpreet Singh.
Mr. Mann on Tuesday hit out on the chief priest, accusing him of upsetting folks by giving an “ultimatum” to the AAP authorities to launch all Sikh youths who had been held in the course of the crackdown towards the Khalistan preacher and his outfit.
Senior SAD chief Daljit Singh Cheema stated the Chief Minister damage Sikh sentiments and that as an alternative of realising his mistake, he was displaying vanity. He identified that the State authorities had been pressured to launch a big quantity of youth who had been arrested on trivial prices. He demanded that each one pending instances towards the youth who had secured bail ought to be withdrawn.
Mr. Cheema stated the AAP was concerned in divisive politics, and all this was being accomplished to divert the eye of the folks from the failure of the federal government on all fronts, be it regulation and order, managing State funds, endeavor improvement work or extending social welfare advantages to the weaker sections of society.
