Washington:
The White Home in the present day met with a gaggle of Sikhs who’re sympathisers for the Khalistan motion That is the primary time ever that they’ve formally engaged with such teams. The White Home has additionally assured them “safety from any transnational aggression on its soil”.
The White Home mentioned it’s dedicated to “defending American Residents” from hurt whereas they’re inside the borders of the US.
This growth comes amid issues that Canada and the US are giving shelter and asylum to Khalistani separatists.
Teams aligned to the Khalistan separatist motion are banned in India and a number of other of those organisations have carried out terrorist actions in the previous couple of a long time.
Whereas the US has not made any official touch upon “giving shelter” to such components, Canada had referred to as it their “freedom of speech”.
In response, Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had mentioned, “India respects and practices freedom of speech, however freedom of speech does not imply freedom to assist separatism. It doesn’t equate with freedom to threaten overseas diplomats or permit political area to components advocating violence.”
“In any rules-based society, you’ll think about that you’d verify individuals’s background, how they got here, what passports they carried and so on,” he had mentioned.
“You probably have individuals whose presence there was itself on very doubtful paperwork, what does it say about you? It really says that your vote-bank really is extra highly effective than your rule of legislation,” Mr Jaishankar had mentioned.
THE WHITE HOUSE MEETING
The assembly at White Home came about hours earlier than PM Modi is to land within the US to attend the Quad summit in Delaware and to deal with the ‘Summit of the Future’ occasion on the United Nations Normal Meeting in New York.
The assembly was held inside the official White Home advanced and was attended by Pritpal Singh of the American Sikh Caucus Committee and representatives from the Sikh Coalition and Sikh American Authorized Defence and Training Fund (SALDEF).
“Yesterday we had the possibility to thank senior federal authorities officers for saving the lives of Sikh People and for vigilance in defending our neighborhood. We requested them to do extra, and we are going to maintain them to their assurances that they’ll,” Pritpal Singh, founding father of the American Sikh Caucus Committee instructed Press Belief of India.
In a social media submit on X, Pritpal Singh thanked the US officers for his or her vigilance in defending Sikh People.”
“We are going to maintain them to their assurances to do extra to safeguard our neighborhood. Freedom and justice should prevail,” he mentioned.
That is the primary time that the US Nationwide Safety Council has held a gathering with Sikh separatists. No different particulars of the assembly can be found but.
What comes as a shock is that the assembly was initiated by the White Home.
US BRINGS NEW BILL
Earlier this week, US Congressman Adam Schiff launched the ‘Transnational Repression Reporting Act 2024’ which requires the Legal professional Normal, in coordination with different related federal businesses, to report circumstances of transnational repression in opposition to individuals in the US.
“By this invoice, Congress sends a robust message to each allies and adversaries that violating the constitutional rights of People won’t be tolerated,” mentioned Sikh group SALDEF which has brazenly supported Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar and has blamed India for his killing.
KHALISTANI TERRORIST GURPATWANT SINGH PANNUN
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun is a delegated Khalistani terrorist. He was born and raised in Khankot village on the outskirts of Amritsar.
Pannun has claimed accountability for a number of terror incidents in India. In April 2023, in a video shared on social media, he brazenly threatened to hurt Prime Minister Narendra Modi throughout his go to to Assam.
He based the Khalistan separatist group SFJ in 2007. India banned the SFJ in 2019 beneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act or UAPA for its anti-India actions. In 2020, Pannun was designated a terrorist.
Pannun holds a twin citizenship of the US and Canada and is presently within the US. His banned separatist organisation operates out of New York.
