The ongoing commotion in Punjab which had been going on for a few weeks, saw a major breakthrough with the arrest of Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh . The police launched an operation in a crackdown against the Khalistan sympathiser and his supporters.
As per reports, around 100 police vans chased the Khalistan sympathiser as he escaped from his house in Amritsar’s Jallupur village. As police started surrounding his residence, the ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief managed to flee. However, he was arrested near Jalandhar’s Nakodar area.
So who is Amrtipal Singh and what exactly is going on in Punjab? Let’s take a look –
- 30-year-old Amritpal Singh came to the limelight in the past 6-7 months in Punjab as a separatist leader, Khalistani sympathiser and radical preacher.
- Amritpal Singh claims to be a follower of Bhindranwale, a militant leader who was an ardent supporter of the demands of Khalistan. Bhindranwale was killed in the infamous Operation Blue Star in June 1984.
- Amritpal Singh has recently returned from Dubai.
- After his return from Dubai, he was appointed as chief of ‘Waris Punjab De’, an organisation formed to voice the rights of people in Punjab, according to the founder Deep Sidhu. He was an actor and an activist who died in a road accident in February 2022.
- According to police records, Amritpal Singh is married to UK-based NRI Kirandeep Kaur.
- Since his anointment as the head of ‘Waris Punjab De’, the Khalistan sympathiser
- There are three cases registered against Amritpal Singh, out of which two are related to hate speech and one is related to kidnapping.
- In a remark against Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the separatist leader had said that Shah’s fate would be similar to that of former prime minister Indira Gandhi.
- In February, supporters of Amritpal Singh, armed with swords and arms, clashed with Ajnala Police and forcefully seized and demanded that Lovepreet Singh alias Toofan, an accused in a case involving kidnapping, be released.
