Congress and trolls attempt to paint Khalistani Deep Sidhu as BJP chief

One of probably the most disturbing pictures that got here out of the Republic Day rebellion was the hoisting of the flag at Red Fort. While there seems to be consensus that it was the Sikh Flag that was raised, it was interpreted by many to be the flag of Khalistan.
Now, based on a few of the farmer leaders, those accountable for the hoisting of the flag at Red Fort have been Deep Sidhu and his gang of supporters. Boota Singh Burjgill, President BKU (Dakaunda), advised The Print, “Deep Sidhu and his group hoisted the flags at the Red Fort. They have been trying to create trouble in the movement from day one. We are following the parade route we had announced.”
“Deep Sidhu and his group hoisted the flags at the Red Fort. They have been trying to create trouble in the movement from day one. We are following the parade route we had announced,” says Boota Singh Burjgill, President BKU (Dakaunda) to @ThePrintIndia— Chitleen K Sethi (@ChitleenKSethi) January 26, 2021
Satnam Singh Pannu, secretary of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, mentioned, “We were in favour of parading on the Ring Road while others unions were against it. We paraded on the ring road today & are now back at Singhu. We had no plan to go to the Red Fort nor did we join those who went.”
Deep Sidhu is a Khalistani supporters who has been concerned within the present protests in opposition to the newly handed farm legal guidelines from the very starting. For a time, he even grew to become in style with the media however ruined his probabilities after he gave an interview to Barkha Dutt, the place he refused to sentence Khalistani terrorist Bhindranwale.
He had shot to media fame after a video had gone viral on social media the place he was seen claiming that the farmers protests would be the defining second of the geopolitics of not simply India but additionally for all the South Asia.
Referring to OpIndia, Barkha Dutt confronted Sidhu on studies that claimed that the actor was a Khalistan supporter. However, she was left disillusioned when Sidhu, as an alternative of condemning Bhindranwale, hailed him as a revolutionary who fought for a powerful federal construction. Despite Barkha Dutt’s repeated insistence, Deep Sidhu didn’t budge from his stand.
Some on social media, nevertheless, after the function of Deep Sidhu in at this time’s occasions grew to become evident, have tried to falsely model him a ‘BJP supporter’. In actuality, Sidhu had clarified throughout his interview with Barkha Dutt that he had solely campaigned for Sunny Deol as a result of he shared an excellent private relationship with the actor and he was not related to any political occasion.
National Coordinator of Digital Communications and Social Media of the Congress occasion, Gaurav Pandhi, claimed that it was “BJP’s sinister plan” and it was “BJP’s Deep Sidhu” who tried to carry the Red Fort at siege.
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Others with an-anti BJP political stance are additionally falsely claiming that Deep Sidhu is a BJP member.
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Such makes an attempt come after the Congress occasion celebrated the violence on the nationwide capital on Republic Day and known as it an illustration of the ‘power of a republic’. Rahul Gandhi, in the meantime, has additionally tried to make use of the Republic Day rebellion to additional his private political agenda and demand a repeal of the farm legal guidelines.
Thus, fairly clearly, an try is being made to whitewash the function of farmer leaders within the present spate of violence that erupted on the nationwide capital. Farmer unions, too, seem to focus all of the blame on Deep Sidhu in order that they will absolve themselves of their function within the violence that transpired.