New Delhi, January 8: Khalistan chief Gurpatwant Singh Pannun continued his incendiary provocation of violence in opposition to India on Monday, calling for shutdown of airports from Amritsar to Ayodhya forward of the January 22 Ram temple Pran Pratishtha ceremony.
The authorized counsel of the outlawed Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) group additionally exhorted Muslims within the nation to ”oppose” the ceremony, and urged them to carve out ‘Urduistan’ from India. ”From Amritsar to Ayodhya, shut down airports. Now could be the time, Muslims, you carve out a rustic Urduistan from India,” Pannun mentioned in a recent video message launched on Monday.
’Each Muslim Should Protest’
Threatening that the ceremony goes to have a ”international consequence”, Pannun mentioned, ”each Muslim should protest”. Pannun’s threats come as preparations for the Ram Mandir’s Pran Pratishtha’ in Ayodhya are in full swing with over one lakh devotees anticipated to be within the metropolis for the occasion, which shall be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The newly-inaugurated Maharishi Valmiki Worldwide Airport in Ayodhya has already acquired greater than 40 requests for touchdown of chartered flights for the mega spiritual occasion.
Pannun Had Referred to as For India’s ’Financial Destruction’
Final week, the Sikh separatist had issued one other video calling for India’s “financial destruction” by concentrating on the Bombay Inventory Trade (BSE) from March 12, coinciding with the thirty first anniversary of serial blasts in Mumbai in 1993.
Pannun was declared a chosen terrorist in 2020 by India beneath the Illegal Actions Prevention Act (UAPA). Whereas the US claims to have shielded him from a purported assassination by Indian brokers, he’s needed in practically two dozen instances, together with a few of terrorism and sedition in India.
In September 2023, his properties in Amritsar and Chandigarh cities have been seized by the NIA, which additionally charged him and his separatist organisation beneath a number of sections of the Indian Penal Code and the UAPA on November 20.
Following the NIA expenses, the novel Sikh and his secessionist group gave a name to pro-Khalistan parts to “picket” Air India’s outbound flights from the airports within the Canadian cities of Toronto and Vancouver on December 1, 2023.