Amritpal Singh had been getting ideological help from radical components within the UK and Canada. (File pic: PTI)
The Union authorities ought to maintain an in depth watch and act accordingly to cease the sinister design of the Khalistanis
Dozens and dozens of supporters of Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh marched in Amritsar to protest the detention of his aide, Lovepreet Singh Toofan. Supporters brandishing swords and weapons pushed by means of police barricades arrange exterior the Ajnala police station in Amritsar. According to Punjab Police, the rioters used the holy Guru Granth Sahib as a defend and attacked cops, injuring six of them. Later, Lovepreet Toofan was launched.
As per media experiences, Waris Punjab De head Amritpal Singh’s actions have been flagged as ‘very serious’ developments by the central safety companies. The siege of a police station in Ajnala to free his aide, Lovepreet Singh Toofan, is simply one of many many points. The experiences additional say {that a} probe is underway to verify who’s funding him and in what method and that Amritpal had been getting ideological help from radical components within the UK and Canada, apart from small pockets in Europe.
A senior journalist notes in a telling column, “Think. A big police station on the Pakistan border is overrun by an armed mob, a suspect is freed, and the state says, ‘sorry, my bad.’ You have to be nuts to think there will be no consequences.” The journalist wryly provides, “They stormed a police station next to the border with Pakistan — as sensitive a zone as you can name. They forced the state to release one of theirs arrested for kidnapping. Watch those craven, grovelling videos of the Amritsar police chief saying that the protesters have proven that the charges were fake and that the police are withdrawing the FIR.”
There is not any disputing the truth that the Khalistan narrative has returned. “The spate of occurrences within days of the change of guard in Punjab should have been anticipated,” mentioned a former DGP from Punjab.
Politically talking, Arvind Kejriwal’s perceived pandering to separatist factions in Punjab, who dream of Punjab as a separate sovereign nation, earned him a bonus within the state polls. Kejriwal’s alleged help for Ok-ideologues garnered him the backing of pro-Ok teams, who declared their help for his get together throughout the Lok Sabha elections. Dr Kumar Vishwas, Kejriwal’s former get together colleague, has excoriated the AAP’s affiliation with Ok-separatists for gaining electoral successes in earlier elections. Rahul Gandhi too had attacked the Delhi Chief Minister for staying on the ancestral house of a former Ok-terrorist in Moga. In the run-up to the 2017 Assembly elections, Gul Panag warned Kejriwal and his get together about their infatuation with extremist non secular fringes and separatist events in Punjab.
Even although border safety is past the state authorities’s management, cooperation between the Punjab Police and Border Security Force (BSF) should be maintained always.
Militancy is once more elevating its head in Punjab. Because there’s a wealth of expertise accessible, the state authorities may very effectively type an ‘Anti-Terror Advisory Committee’ comprising retired cops who have been on the forefront of anti-terrorist operations within the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties. Former cops suggest that within the face of contemporary risks, the Monthly Intelligence Review (Pink Book), which was shaped throughout the peak of terrorism by former DGP Intelligence, OP Sharma, be re-launched and distributed to all districts. This will make it simpler to recuperate historic paperwork and observe the actions of varied militant organisations and their members who are actually engaged as prepared reckoners.
Security specialists say that within the aftermath of occasions in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, in addition to Punjab, the three state police forces ought to type an ‘Anti-Terrorism Coordination Centre’ that may collaborate with officers from the BSF and the Intelligence Bureau (IB). Given the potential hyperlink between gangsters and terrorists, the proposed cell also needs to collaborate with the newly shaped Anti-Gangster Task Force.
With the state’s rebel previous within the Eighties and the Nineteen Nineties, Punjab, which can be a vital border state, can’t be allowed to slide into anarchy. The Union authorities ought to maintain an in depth watch and act accordingly to cease the sinister design of the Khalistanis.
Yuvraj Pokharna is an impartial journalist and columnist. He tweets with @pokharnaprince. Views expressed are private.
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