New Delhi: Days ahead of the Assembly elections in Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘soft corner for Khalistan’ is a raging controversy. Yesterday, secessionist organisation Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) released a letter announcing support to the Kejriwal-Bhagwant Mann led AAP in the elections. However, minutes later, the SFJ founder Gurpatwant Singh Pannu released a video claiming that the letter in Punjabi circulating on social media was fake.
AAP’s alleged inclination for a separate Khalistan (after secession from Punjab) has raised the hackles of people and even sparked off heated political debate.
BJP & Congress have launched scathing attack on the AAP leadership while the latter tried to wash its hands off controversy by claiming it a political conspiracy. It alleged that BJP, Congress have ganged up against a fledgling party to stop its march to power in the state.
Fact Check : सिख फ़ॉर जस्टिस के नाम से वायरल किया जा रहा आम आदमी पार्टी को समर्थन देने वाला पत्र फ़र्ज़ी है…
खुद गुरपतवंत सिंह पन्नू ने इसके फ़र्ज़ी होने का ऐलान किया है. @BhagwantMann @ArvindKejriwal @AamAadmiParty @raghav_chadha pic.twitter.com/100ptq2nVr
— Shivank Mishra (@shivank_8mishra) February 17, 2022
Raghav Chadha in focus over phone call to SFJ
Amid the controversy over AAP’s alleged support for Khalistan, party’s national spokesperson Raghav Chadha is in the eye of storm. In a letterpad of the separatist group, circulating on Twitter, it is claimed that someone on behalf of Raghav Chadha made phone calls to the Sikhs for Justice office.
SFJ chief claimed that the AAP made calls to its office twice. In first call, it was told to keep quiet on the SFJ support for AAP controversy and also promises of financial reward was made for staying silent.
BREAKING : सिख फ़ॉर जस्टिस ने जारी किया एक लेटर.. कहा फ़र्ज़ी लेटर के वायरल होने के बाद आम आदमी पार्टी के नेताओं की तरफ से आये उसके पास कॉल…
सिख फ़ॉर जस्टिस का दावा कॉल करने वाले ने कहा बड़े नेता हैं खालिस्तान-रेफरेंडम के पक्ष में… #PunjabElections #PunjabElections2022 pic.twitter.com/4RZXCELqjI
— Shivank Mishra (@shivank_8mishra) February 18, 2022
The caller also informed that the Kerjriwal as well as AAP CM face in Punjab Bhagwant Mann in favour of referendum for Khalistan, it claimed.
In the second call, the caller threatened the SFJ if it goes against the directive.
What Vishwas said on Kejriwal-Khalistan ‘link’?
Arvind Kejriwal’s alleged support for Khalistan first came into light after poet & ex-AAP leader Kumar Vishwas made explosive allegations against the Delhi Chief Minister.
In a video, Vishwas was heard saying, Kejriwal told him some years ago that he will either become Punjab CM or the PM of a separate state (read Khalistan).
#WATCH | Poet & former AAP leader Kumar Vishwas alleges AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal was supportive of separatists in Punjab
“One day, he told me he would either become CM (of Punjab) or first PM of an independent nation (Khalistan),” Vishwas says. pic.twitter.com/5ccGs9jNn3
— ANI (@ANI) February 16, 2022
AAP was quick to dismiss the video as fabricated, doctored & mischievous and also warned the media organisations against broadcasting it, failing which action will be taken against them.
