Blamed for Jan 26 violence, Lakha Sidhana not new to controversies

A gangster-turned-social activist, being blamed for instigating the protesters resulting in violence on Republic Day, Wednesday claimed that he solely marched as much as the Outer Ring Road within the nationwide capital and by no means had any agenda of going in the direction of the Red Fort.
Lakhbir Singh Sidhana aka Lakha Sidhana, a local of Sidhana village in Punjab’s Bathinda, accused the federal government and police of conspiring in opposition to the farmers’ agitation whereas claiming that he all the time referred to as for peace.
“I am pained at the incidents that took place on Tuesday but I am not involved in these. There is no video, photo or other evidence that shows that I instigated people. We had marched towards the Outer Ring Road following our farmer leaders in a peaceful manner. We never had any agenda of going towards the Red Fort,” the 40-year-old stated.
Sidhana, who has been tenting on the Singhu border since November 26, additionally denied allegations that he shared the stage with actor Deep Sidhu, who can also be being blamed for instigating violence, on the Singhu border on Monday evening, claiming that he tried to relax individuals who wished to take out the march on the Outer Ring Road.
Sidhana claimed that just about 20 farmer leaders went until Ring Road with their cadres in a peaceable method and returned quickly after. He claimed that fashionable sentiment was in assist of going to the Ring Road as farmer unions had introduced first on January 2 after which on January 17 that they may perform the tractor rally there.
Sidhana, who heads Malwa Youth Federation which claims to do social welfare works in villages, has greater than 25 prison circumstances registered in opposition to him in Punjab. They embody homicide, try and homicide, kidnapping, and below Arms Act. A humanities graduate from Punjabi University, Patiala, Sidhana claims to have stop the crime world for social work.
He joined the People’s Party of Punjab in 2011, and stop in 2013.
Since then, Sidhana gained reputation within the Malwa area, having helped marry off a number of ladies from weaker sections and serving to households in money and type.
He hit the headlines in October 2017 for allegedly defacing English signages demanding that they be written in Punjabi. He was arrested and despatched to Faridkot Modern Jail from the place he did a stay session on Facebook attraction farmers to not burn paddy stubble. A cellphone was recovered from his barrack and he was booked in a case of dishonest. In May 2019, he and 60 others had been booked in an try and homicide case whereas taking out a protest rally in Badal village.