Latest developments - with 26 updates. Tuesday 9th Feb : Be Informed, Be Active
1. One more farmer died at Singhu. Harender of Sewa village of Panipat died due to Cardiac arrest. Salute to the martyrs. Harendra used to get up every morning at 4 am and engage in langar service.
2. Deep Sidhu went to Sachkhand Siri Darbar Sahib to do seva, then handed himself for arrest in Sonipat. Lawyers from Punjab already coming forward to represent him.
3. Delhi Police make up a story as they do, that they had a special cell who arrested him after an investigation. Punjab police deny this. Then police said he was arrested in Zikarpur, but that was denied by Zikarpur police. He is now in Police custody for 7 day’s.
4. Irony is he was sent to police custody from "Tees Hazaari", place named when 30,000 sikh force stayed for some time, later to attack mughal emperor and to hoist same flag at Red Fort 250+ years ago.
5. Deep Sidhu has been booked by Delhi Police Case FIR No. u/s 96/2021 PS Kotwali Delhi under sections 146/148/149/152/186/269/279/353/332/307/308/395/397/427/188/120B/34 IPC; read with secs. 25/27/54/59 Arms Act; r/w s. 3 PDPP Act & s. 30 AMASR Act. It’s an extraordinary list and shows how differently BJP treats Deep Sidhu, Nodeep Kaur and other activists in comparison to the charges recieved by rich Gujarati such as Nirav Modi, Vijay Maliyas. Activists get beaten and sexually assaulted and has the highest grade of FIR’s filled, the other live a life of luxury on the proceeds of crime.
6. Many people upset at farmer leader Rulda Singh statement that it’s good that Deep Sidhu is arrested. It shows how some farm leaders like Rajinder played a tune to help BJP separate Lakha Sidhana and Deep Sidhu from the mainstream leadership, but then still have a significant following in Punjab Youth. Now it’s clear that the real discussion with happen on the table by Amit Shah from BJP and Rakesh Tikait from farmers. As Punjab had started and put most effort into morcha, now at the vital time, it’s no longer the biggest player in the talks. This will naturally be detrimental to Punjab.
7. Mahua Moitra MP from West Bengal was scathing of BJP yesterday in Parliament. Openly calling Modi and his cronies cowards. She laid out many truths of BJP hypocrisy and called for farm laws to be repealed. One of many quotes from her speech, “The farm laws have firmly established this government’s motto of “brutality over morality”
8. The speech of MP Mahua Moitra has gone viral on social media. She was praised on social media for her fearless stand inside the Parliament. She made references to leaders in Sikh history Jassa Singh Ahluwalia and Sardar Bhagael Singh who conquered Delhi from Mughals in 1783. BJP only won Delhi in 2014. Do not speak to Sikhs about courage, she said.
9. She vividly pointed out BJP talks of nationalism but it’s actual contribution is zero compared to Punjab.
10. She tweeted: “But this government has miscalculated. There is a fundamental difference between cowardice & courage. The coward is brave only when armed with power & authority. The truly courageous can fight even when unarmed.”
11. If we had someone speak for Punjab like her, the people of Punjab would be much better off. Instead we have Capt Amrinder and Badals who have no backbone and no care for Punjab apart from their self interest.
12. NDTV - No Action Against Trinamool's Mahua Moitra For Parliament Speech After All. Sources say legal opinion was in favour of Mahua Moitra as she spoke about a former, not sitting, Chief Justice who currently does not count as a "higher authority".
13. Mahapanchayat in Kurukshetra today. Farm Union leaders will address the Mahapanchayat.
14. Amnesty International is not operating in India due to harassment from Hindu fundamentalists. Today it stated,”The Government of India needs to engage and listen to its people. The authorities must stop threatening, demonising, and arresting peaceful protesters and stop treating them as ‘anti-nationals’ or ‘terrorists’,” said Rajat Khosla. “Amnesty International calls for the immediate and unconditional release of activists and others who have been arrested for simply exercising their right to peaceful protest and for the government to stop the harassment and demonization of protesters.”
15. NDTV covers the case of Nodeep Kaur and Shiv Kumar due to the sikh diaspora highlighting her case.
16. NDTV covers the cases of 2 elder sikhs arrested 80 year old, former soldier Gurmukh Singh who is veteran of Indo-Pak war. Then 70 year old Jeet Singh, who was a former soldier. Both are now in Tihar Jail in Delhi which over 140 other sikh protestors. Many other protestors are missing.
17. #FarmersCallPMforDebate is Trending #1 in India.
18. Twitter seeks talks with India over order to remove accounts. India has asked the social media giant to take down 1,178 accounts it says are spreading misinformation.
19. Mahima Kaul has resigned as India Public Policy Head employed at Twitter.
20. Three youth have been released from Tihar with the efforts of DSGMC. Ramandeep Singh, Lavpreet Singh, Jaswinder Singh of Mansa have been released. @mssirsa’s efforts have helped.
21. MP Tanmanjit Singh Dhesi condemned the BJP supported group from West London called Inspiring Indian Women, who tweeted in favour of genocide of sikhs. He tweeted, “"Rather than inspiring women, their anti-Sikh, anti-Labour, anti-Congress, anti-farmer vile tries to divide communities."
22. Notably Southall MP Virender Sharma has conveniently distanced himself them but not condemned them. Why ?
23. West London observers call for police action against this BJP for hatemongering and incitement.
24. BJP’s Ashwini Sharma has been gheraoed in Ferozpur by farmers. He had gone to attend party’s ceremony in Ferozpur. Police trying to steer him out of the area.
25. Harsimrat Badal microphone is shut off in Parliament when she in her speech points out PM Modi called farmers a word meaning parasites.
26. Just when you think the Modi supporter cannot get more pathetic, they do. So the BJP supporting organization called Social Umbrella Foundation from New Delhi writes to the USA ambassador of India asking for arrest of Rihanna and her deportation to India based upon her part in a so-called global conspiracy. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
