Actor Deep Sidhu’s Position Below Scrutiny After Tractor Rally Violence
Deep Sidhu mentioned the protesters didn’t move to Delhi to harm someone or harm public assets.
New Delhi:
After an afternoon of clashes throughout a farmers’ tractor protest on Republic Day on Tuesday, the position of a Punjabi actor, Deep Sidhu, has come underneath scrutiny. The actor-activist, as soon as recognized to be just about film star-turned-BJP MP Sunny Deol, was once closing observed at Purple Castle, which changed into the epicenter of the chaos that descended upon Delhi.
Farmers have accused him of planting the “Nishan Sahib” or Sikh non secular flag on the Purple Castle, an act that has provoked outrage, particularly on social media. Photographs of protesters armed with sticks occupying the 400-year-old Mughal monument has drawn complaint even from those that subsidized the farmers’ agitation.
In a publish on Fb closing night time, Deep Sidhu has defended the act, pronouncing the protesters didn’t take away the nationwide flag however publish the “Nishan Sahib” as a symbolic protest.
He additionally claimed that it was once a spontaneous act.
“To symbolically sign in our protest in opposition to the brand new farm regulation, we publish ‘Nishan Sahib’ and a farmer flag and in addition raised the slogan of Kisan Mazdoor Ekta,” mentioned Mr Sidhu. He asserted that the nationwide flag was once no longer got rid of from the flagpole on the Purple Castle.
Pointing on the “Nishan Sahib” — a triangular saffron flag bearing Sikh non secular symbols – he mentioned it represented the rustic’s “team spirit in variety”.
Mr Sidhu mentioned such anger was once herbal in a mass motion “when the real rights of other folks” are overlooked. “In as of late’s state of affairs, that anger flared up.”
He mentioned the protesters didn’t move to Delhi to harm someone or harm public assets. “We held a calm protest with out destroying the rest or inflicting any harm to the general public assets…we exercised our democratic proper peacefully. If we predict one individual or a character may just do the sort of large mobilisation of other folks, then it’ll be unsuitable.”
However quite a lot of farmer leaders have distanced themselves from him and accused him of performing on behalf of the federal government to take a look at and taint a calm protest.
The actor-activist got here into the highlight as an aide of Sunny Deol when he contested from Gurdaspur in Punjab in 2019. The actor has since disassociated himself from Mr Sidhu. He put out a commentary in December. The previous day, Sunny Deol posted any other commentary: “Nowadays what came about at Purple Castle has saddened me. I had previous too, on December 6, made it transparent that neither I nor my circle of relatives have the rest to do with Deep Sidhu.”
The Samkyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella frame of 41 farmer unions this is main the farmer protest, alleged that some “delinquent parts” had infiltrated their another way non violent motion.
Rajesh Tikait of the Bharat Kisan Union mentioned: “Deep Sidhu isn’t a Sikh, he’s a employee of the BJP. This can be a motion of farmers and can stay so. Some other folks should depart this position right away – those that broke barricading won’t ever be part of the motion.”
Some other chief enthusiastic about the day past’s protest, Satnam Singh Pannu of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, mentioned: “No matter came about at Purple Castle is on account of Deep Sidhu. Why did not the police forestall him at Purple Castle? He’s just about the ruling party.”
