Khalistan separatist chief Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has threatened to assassinate Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take part within the Republic Day parade on January 26 with out safety cowl, The Indian Categorical reported on Tuesday.
Pannun is the founding father of a gaggle known as Sikhs for Justice that advocates for Khalistan, an unbiased state for Sikhs. It’s banned in India. Pannun was declared an “particular person terrorist” underneath the Illegal Actions Prevention Act in 2020.
“I dare Modi, you come to Delhi with out your safety,” Pannun mentioned in a video, in response to The Indian Categorical. “In case you are a well-liked chief, come to Delhi on Republic Day with out safety. The SFJ [Sikhs for Justice] will increase the Khalistani flag and avenge the killing of Shaheed [Hardeep Singh] Nijjar.”
Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh separatist chief, was killed by masked gunmen on June 18 close to Vancouver, Canada. Months after the killing on September 18, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had informed his nation’s parliament that intelligence companies have been actively pursuing “credible allegations” tying brokers of the Indian authorities to the dying of Nijjar.
In one other video, Pannun described Mann as a “butcher like Beant Singh” and requested gangsters to not permit the Punjab chief minister to unfurl the tricolour in Ludhiana on Republic Day. Singh was the previous chief minister of Punjab who was assassinated by Khalistani terrorists in 1995.
Pannun additionally requested the gangsters to assault Mann, reported India At the moment. He additionally requested the youth to get in contact together with his organisation and register themselves as voters for a referendum on Khalistan on January 26.
The separatist chief additionally equated Punjab’s Director Common of Police Gaurav Yadav to assassinated police officer Gobind Ram, who was killed in a bomb blast in 1990.
After the risk, Yadav mentioned that the police have “zero tolerance coverage” in opposition to gangsters and vowed to take motion in opposition to those that may try and assassinate Mann, reported NDTV.
Prior to now, Pannun had additionally threatened former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.
On November 29, the United States Lawyer’s Workplace, Southern District of New York, introduced that it had filed “murder-for-hire fees” in opposition to an Indian nationwide in connection together with his alleged participation in a thwarted plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist chief within the US.
Whereas the assertion didn’t identify the separatist chief, a report within the Monetary Instances on November 23 recognized him as Pannun.
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