Chandigarh, Mar 29: Amid a police crackdown on Amritpal Singh and his outfit, the Khalistan sympathiser appeared in a video on Wednesday, calling for a ‘Sarbat Khalsa’ congregation on Baisakhi to discuss issues related to the Sikh community and saying he is in high spirits (Chardhi Kala).
The fugitive said if the Punjab government wanted only to arrest him, they would have come to his home and he would have given up. He claimed the police action against him was an “attack” on the Sikh community.
“As far as my arrest is concerned, it is in the hands of God,” he said in Punjabi in the undated video.
“Main chardhi kala chaan, koi ve mera vaal vinga nahi kar sakya (I am in high spirits. Nobody could harm me),” he said, adding he did not fear being arrested earlier nor he does now.
In the latest video, Amritpal Singh urged the Akal Takht Jathedar to call a ‘Sarbat Khalsa’ to discuss the issues related to the Sikh community and asked members of the community to participate in large numbers.
“If we have to save the youth and Punjab then we should be part of the Sarbat Khalsa,” he said in his appeal. “For a very long time, our community has got entangled with holding small morchas on many issues,” he said.
“We know the path which we have tread, we will have to face all this. It was our duty to raise voice against it,” he said.
The Khalistan sympathiser also slammed police for invoking the National Security Act against his associates and sending some of them to Dibrugarh jail in Assam.
