REPUBLIC DAY RALLIES AND WRANGLINGS
The farmers agitation around Delhi seems to have grown quite intense and gave rise to some awkward developments on the Republic Day with a section of farmers, mainly Sikhs, breaking away from the permitted route for their tractor rally and going on rampage near the Red Fort premises, and are even alleged to have hoisted a Khalistani flag at a vintage point on the Red Fort – or at any rate all admit that a Sikh religious flag (Nishan Sahib) was hoisted. It seems the Sikh farmer agitators were very aggressive and rode roughshod over their tractors and injured hundreds of policemen too, and in the melee, police say, a tractor overturned and a Sikh farmer (tractor-driver) was killed in the accident. Of course, no dearth of counter-allegations that his tractor toppled and he died because of police shooting him down in the first instance. One Deep Sidhu, admittedly a BJP man till recently and don’t know whether he continues so since this agitation, was the main person behind this hoisting of the ‘Nishan Sahib’ it seems and he has gone viral on the net through a video posted by himself explaining the circumstances in which the struggle took that shape; he stresses that it was to emphasize the ‘unity in diversity’ of the Indian nation that he chose to hoist that Sikh religious flag. However, a Sikh Congress MP (Ludhiana) Mr. Ravneet Singh Bittu had earlier exposed the Khalistani separatists’ involvement and incitement in the farmers agitation though he himself is camping there as one of the activist agitator leaders and even stated that the Khalistanis are spending crores of rupees for the purpose. But he seems to have kept diplomatic silence on this Republic Day melee at the Red Fort and also about the role of the alleged ‘false flag’ of BJP, Deep Singh Sidhu. However, OpIndia, a pro-BJP website, openly accuses that the Sikhs for Justice, a banned pro-Khalistan US-based group that has been attempting to ‘build a campaign for secession of Punjab’ since its inception in 2007, and which came to notice in August 2018 pro-Khalistan rally at Trafalgar Square, London, releasing the “Referendum 2020’ declaration, is very much behind these tractor rally riots and a Khalistani flag was hoisted on Red Fort with insult to the national tricolor. We have made already clear in our previous editorials that we decry this Khalistani hand but at the same time demand that suitable amendments be made in the farm laws as suggested by us earlier and this burning problem be satisfactorily resolved at the earliest. §§§
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