Deep Sidhu mentioned the protesters did not go to Delhi to hurt any person or harm public home.New Delhi: After a day of clashes throughout a farmers’ tractor protest on Republic Day on Tuesday, the part of a Punjabi actor, Deep Sidhu, has come beneath scrutiny. The actor-activist, after identified to be close to film star-turned-BJP MP Sunny Deol, was final observed at Red Fort, which became the epicenter of the chaos that descended upon Delhi.Farmers have accused him of planting the “Nishan Sahib” or Sikh religious flag at the Red Fort, an act that has provoked outrage, specifically on social media. Images of protesters armed with sticks occupying the 400-year-old Mughal monument has drawn criticism even from these who backed the farmers’ agitation.In a post on Facebook final evening, Deep Sidhu has defended the act, saying the protesters did not take away the national flag but place up the “Nishan Sahib” as a symbolic protest.He also claimed that it was a spontaneous act.”To symbolically register our protest against the new farm legislation, we put up ‘Nishan Sahib’ and a farmer flag and also raised the slogan of Kisan Mazdoor Ekta,” mentioned Mr Sidhu. He asserted that the national flag was not removed from the flagpole at the Red Fort.Pointing at the “Nishan Sahib” — a triangular saffron flag bearing Sikh religious symbols – he mentioned it represented the country’s “unity in diversity”.Mr Sidhu mentioned such anger was organic in a mass movement “when the genuine rights of people” are ignored. “In today’s situation, that anger flared up.”He mentioned the protesters did not go to Delhi to hurt any person or harm public home. “We held a peaceful protest without destroying anything or causing any damage to the public property…we exercised our democratic right peacefully. If we think one person or a personality could do such a big mobilisation of people, then it will be wrong.”But different farmer leaders have distanced themselves from him and accused him of acting on behalf of the government to attempt and taint a peaceful protest.The actor-activist came into the spotlight as an aide of Sunny Deol when he contested from Gurdaspur in Punjab in 2019. The actor has due to the fact disassociated himself from Mr Sidhu. He place out a statement in December. Yesterday, Sunny Deol posted a different statement: “Today what happened at Red Fort has saddened me. I had earlier too, on December 6, made it clear that neither I nor my family have anything to do with Deep Sidhu.”The Samkyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of 41 farmer unions that is top the farmer protest, alleged that some “antisocial elements” had infiltrated their otherwise peaceful movement.Rajesh Tikait of the Bharat Kisan Union mentioned: “Deep Sidhu is not a Sikh, he is a worker of the BJP. This is a movement of farmers and will remain so. Some people will have to leave this place immediately – those who broke barricading will never be a part of the movement.”Another leader involved in yesterday’s protest, Satnam Singh Pannu of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, mentioned: “Whatever happened at Red Fort is because of Deep Sidhu. Why didn’t the police stop him at Red Fort? He is close to the ruling party.”
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