London, March 6 – External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr. S. Jaishankar was subjected to harassment and an attempted assault by Khalistani extremists in London on Thursday (IST) as he departed from an event at the Chatham House think tank.
Pro-Khalistan supporters staged a demonstration outside the venue, where Dr. Jaishankar had participated in a discussion. A widely circulated video shows an individual rushing towards his vehicle and tearing the Indian national flag in full view of London police officers, who appeared unresponsive to the act of vandalism. Several demonstrators, carrying pro-Khalistan flags, gathered outside the venue in protest.
🚨 : Khalistani goons attempt to heckle India’s External Affairs Minister @DrSJaishankar in London while he was leaving in a car. A man can be seen trying to run towards him, tearing the Indian national flag in front of cops. Police seem helpless, as if ordered to not act. pic.twitter.com/zSYrqDgBRx
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India has consistently urged countries such as Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom to take decisive legal action against Khalistani extremists. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has personally raised this concern with global leaders, particularly in Canada, where the Sikh community constitutes nearly 2% of the population.
UK’s Leaked Extremism Report Highlights Pro-Khalistan and Hindu Nationalist Movements
A leaked report from the UK government’s ‘Extremism Review’ has identified two forms of extremism originating from the Indian subcontinent: pro-Khalistan extremism and Hindu nationalist extremism.
The report, titled "Extremely Confused: The Government’s New Counter-Extremism Review Revealed," was authored by Andrew Gilligan and Dr. Paul Scott for the Policy Exchange think tank and released earlier this week. It marks the first instance where Hindu nationalist extremism has been mentioned in such a review.
According to the leaked document, the longest section is titled "Understand" and categorizes nine types of extremism: Islamist, extreme right-wing, extreme misogyny, pro-Khalistan extremism, Hindu nationalist extremism, environmental extremism, Left-wing, anarchist and single-issue extremism (LASI), violence fascination, and conspiracy theories.
The report notes that while support for an independent Sikh state of Khalistan is not inherently extremist, the concern arises when this advocacy is linked to the promotion of violence.
Earlier this year, Sikh protesters in London pulled down the Indian flag at the Indian High Commission and damaged the building’s windows during demonstrations over the arrest of Amritpal Singh.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs strongly condemned the incidents, summoning the UK’s Deputy High Commissioner in New Delhi to lodge a formal protest over the security breach at the Indian High Commission in London.
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