Amritpal Singh addressing his supporters (File)

New Delhi:

With the assistance of abroad Sikh separatists, Pakistan’s exterior spy company ISI has been the mind behind pushing Amritpal Singh again to India with an purpose to revive terrorism in Punjab, based on officers.

Singh, aged round 30, was a truck driver in Dubai earlier than the ISI, with the assistance of Khalistan supporters based mostly outdoors India, radicalised him in order that he may plunge Punjab once more into the darkish days of terrorism, they mentioned.

Threatening Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Punjab Chief Minister Bagwant Singh Mann, the novel Sikh preacher had been overtly making statements about declaring secession from India and forming Khalistan. He spoke about former prime minister Indira Gandhi and chief minister Beant Singh who had been assassinated by terrorists.

While Indira Gandhi was shot lifeless by her personal guards, Beant Singh was killed by Dilawar Singh, who acted as a human bomb. The radical preacher claimed that many Dilawars had been prepared within the present state of affairs of Punjab.

Be it his rally at Tarn Taran on this 12 months’s Republic Day or his media interviews, he had overtly supported separatism and the formation of Khalistan.

He incited the Sikh youths to resort to armed insurrection towards the democratically elected governments with a view to oppose the supposedly discriminatory remedy being mete to attain the ‘final purpose’ of the formation of ‘Khalistan’, the officers mentioned.

During a operate at Rode in Moga district, Singh had mentioned that governments run by non-Sikh haven’t any proper to rule over the folks of Punjab and that the folks of Punjab should be dominated over solely by Sikhs.

He has been styling himself on the strains of terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who was killed throughout Operation Blue Star in 1984, by copying his apparel, mannerisms, carrying an arrow, retaining a battery of armed bodyguards and taking the defend of faith.

Singh, who’s at current on the run, can also be alleged to have hyperlinks with Lakhbir Singh Rode, head of the International Sikh Youth Federation who’s hunted for trial in India and wished in instances of Arms Smuggling (together with RDX explosive), conspiracy to assault authorities leaders in New Delhi and spreading hatred in Punjab.

Tracking his actions, the officers mentioned that Singh, throughout his keep in Dubai, was in shut contact with Rode’s brother Jaswant.

Having made his comeback to Punjab on the behest of ISI, Singh took the assistance of Amrit Sanchar to arrange his organisation. Later he launched a marketing campaign known as ‘Khalsa Waheer’ and strengthened his organisation by going to the villages, they mentioned.

He stirred up the problems of Punjab and began inciting the Sikhs towards the federal government by invoking faith.

“The lower strata of society and aimless youth became an easy target of Singh and he started exploiting the sentiments in the name of religion,” a supply mentioned.

In the identify of organising Amritpan Ceremonies to baptise Sikh youth and join them with faith, his try was to make a military of disenchanted youth who had been able to tackle the state, officers alleged.

Not contemplating the sanctity of pious locations like Gurdwara, his so-called military vandalised two Gurdwaras for retaining some furnishings for the aged and disabled folks to sit down, they mentioned.

According to the officers, his important purpose was to push Punjab in direction of darkish many years of militancy which have been overcome by nice problem and plenty of sacrifices.

The officers claimed that the organisation headed by Singh was getting funds from Pakistan.

The radical Sikh preacher had taken over the management of accounts of Waris Punjab De with the assistance of his uncle Harjit Singh, thus making it a family-run organisation.

They mentioned the so-called preacher had been utilizing Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji throughout his February agitation for his private pursuits and was thought of as a sort of blasphemy.

This act of Singh was condemned by the whole Sikh neighborhood and after the incident, Shri Akal Takht Sahib fashioned a committee and ordered an investigation into the matter.

The officers alleged that Singh went to Jathedar Akal Takht and threatened him to stay silent.

Singh had mentioned in an announcement that the Ajnala incident is “not violence” and likewise threatened to unleash “real violence” sooner or later.

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