Farmers Protest 2024 on Saturday entered Day 5 with thousands of protestors still trying to reach New Delhi to protest against the Modi Government. Thousands of protestors coming from Punjab have been stopped in Haryana and therefore, farmers and Police are at loggerheads there. While Haryana CM Khatter in a press conference said that farmers are allowed to go to Delhi via public transport, farmers have been marching to Delhi in their tractors. In the backend, farmers' union leaders and a delegation of the Central Government have conducted three rounds of meetings in Chandigarh. Amid this, a video is going viral on social media in which some Pro Khalistani elements were seen flashing posters of 'jailed' Amritpal Singh and late Punjabi singer Deep Sidhu.
In the viral video, a few men can be seen climbing up the pole of the advertisements and hosting a flag. Not only this, the men put up posters of Pro Khalistan leaders Amritpal Singh and Deep Sidhu. On Friday, the fourth day of the Delhi march, farmers of Punjab remained standing at the Shambhu and Data Singhwala borders adjacent to Haryana. There was peace in Data Singhwala, but the tension is increasing on the Shambhu border. Pro-Khalistan banners were seen in the hands of some youth camping there.
For the unversed, Pro Khalistan leader & Waris Punjab De Chief Amritpal Singh is currently lodged in Assam jail. On April 23, 2023, he was arrested outside a Gurudwara near Moga. A case was registered against Amritpal for ISI connection, funding from abroad, illegal weapons, and being a Khalistan supporter. After absconding, Amritpal had also taken refuge in Kurukshetra. Later he was arrested from Moga.
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