In the newest incident of an assault in opposition to the Indian diaspora, Khalistan supporters attacked the Consulate of India in Brisbane and raised their flag on the workplace. The incident reportedly occurred on February 21 in Queensland, Australia.

When Archana Singh, the Consul of India in Brisbane, arrived on February 22, she discovered the Khalistan flag hoisted at her workplace. She rapidly alerted Queensland Police, who took the flag down and inspected the Consulate to make sure that there was no speedy menace.

“Police are surveilling the area to keep us safe. We have strong faith in the police authority,” Archana Singh was quoted as saying by Australia Today.

“The whole Indian Australian community is working together so that what happened in Melbourne is not repeated,” she added.

Editor of Australia Today, J Bhardwaj advised information company ANI that to date, there have been assaults on Indian Australians, however now, they (Khalistan supporters) are concentrating on establishments belonging to the Indian authorities, and the assault on the Indian Consulate in Brisbane is a direct assault on the Government of India.

The assault on the Consulate comes simply days after India requested Australia to rein in Khalistani separatists who’ve been concentrating on Hindu temples all through the world.

On February 18, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and his deputy, V Muraleedharan, visited Sydney and Melbourne. During this go to, and dialogue, Jaishankar expressed India’s considerations over the sequence of assaults on Hindu temples to his counterpart Penny Wong and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Pro-Khalistanis attacked Indians protesting in opposition to the so-called Referendum 2020 in Melbourne

On January 29, a number of movies appeared on social media displaying Indian Australians being attacked by Khalistanis with swords, whereas carrying the Indian tricolour. Notably, the Khalistani terrorist outfit ‘Sikhs For Justice’, which has been banned by the Indian authorities, had introduced {that a} referendum on Khalistan will happen on January 29 at Federation Square. On the identical day, Indian Australians additionally organized a protest on the identical venue in opposition to rising pro-Khalistan actions and assaults on Hindi temples within the nation.

This led to a conflict between the 2 teams, and a few Khalistanis attacked the Indians. Australian Hindu Media knowledgeable that the police arrested a sword-yielding Khalistani at Federation Square through the occasion.

Taking to Twitter, Sarah L Gates, Director of Hindu Human Rights Australasia shared the video of a bunch of Khalistan supporters chasing an Indian youth who was carrying the Indian nationwide flag. 

Prior to this, three separate anti-Hindu assaults on temples have taken place in Australia in lower than a month, all of which had been organized by locals who assist the Khalistani propaganda. 

Australian Hindus hand over calls for to residence minister

Owing to the rise in assaults on the Indian diaspora by pro-Khalistani components with terror hyperlinks, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs on February 2, strongly condemned the assault on the Indian neighborhood by the extremist Khalistani teams in Melbourne, Australia, and urged the native authorities to launch an investigation into the case and punish the perpetrators.

The Australian Hindus, on February 5 (native time), presented an inventory of calls for to the Home Affairs Minister Clare O’ Neil who visited a Durga Temple in Melbourne forward of the resumption of the Parliament.