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Sports Has Taken Over Militancy In JK: DGP Dilbagh Singh

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SRINAGAR: Dilbagh Singh, Jammu and Kashmir’s Director General of Police (DGP) on Monday that sports have become more popular than militancy in the state.
Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a football tournament here, DGP Singh, as per news said that at present there is a low count of militancy as sports have taken over militancy in the UT. “Youth and Children are taking part in sports in large numbers. They are pursuing careers in studies and participating in competitive exams,” DGP said.
He said that police are working hard to provide a more peaceful atmosphere to children and youth so that they can further participate in the sports of their choice and choose their careers in the fields of their choice. The DGP said that the police will help make peace a permanent feature so that youth and children can excel in the fields of their choice.
To query whether police will assist the Punjab police in the Amritpal Singh case, the DGP said J&K police will provide all possible help to Punjab police wherever they would need. “Some cases are being jointly probed by Punjab and J&K police,” he said.
LG Manoj Sinha said that the J & K administration has spent huge amounts to upgrade the sports infrastructure across the UT. On Sunday, he said that the government land retrieved will be used to build sports infrastructure including play fields so that youth can play sports in their native areas. (KNO)

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March 20, 2023
Sports count has taken over militancy in J&K: DGP Dilbagh Singh

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Srinagar, Mar 20: Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh Monday said that the youth in the UT are taking part in sports activities and the sports count has taken over militancy in J&K.
Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a football tournament here, DGP Singh, as per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said that at present there is a low count of militancy as sports have taken over militancy in the UT. “Youth and Children are taking part in sports in large numbers. They are pursuing careers in studies and participating in the competent exams,” DGP said.
He said that police are working hard to provide a more peaceful atmosphere to children and youth so that they can further participate in the sports of their choice and choose their careers in the fields of their choice. The DGP said that the police will help make peace a permanent feature so that youth and children can excel in the fields of their choice.
To a query whether police will assist Punjab police in Amritpal Singh case, the DGP said J&K police will provide all possible help to Punjab police wherever they would need. “Some cases are being jointly probed by Punjab and J&K police,” he said.
LG Manoj Sinha said that the J & K administration has spent huge amounts to upgrade the sports infrastructure across the UT. On Sunday, he said that the government land retrieved will be used to build sports infrastructure including play fields so that youth can play sports in their native areas—(KNO)
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March 20, 2023
Punjab: VHP hails crackdown on Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh

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New Delhi: The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Monday hailed the police crackdown on radical Sikh preacher and Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh in Punjab, saying the state government’s action in collaboration with the Centre reflects the country’s resolve to take on forces challenging the sovereignty of India.
Addressing a press conference, VHP working president Alok Kumar also appreciated the Punjab government for showing the “will-power and determination” to take action against such elements.
He also called upon everyone to rise above political lines and come together to send out a message that the country will not allow anyone to let Punjab “burn in the fire of terrorism once again.”
“In the last two days, the will power and determination that Punjab has shown as well as the way the state government and the Centre together has taken on the forces challenging the sovereignty of India reflects the country’s resolve,” Kumar told reporters.
“The Punjab government joining hands with the Centre has challenged the divisive forces in the state and we see that the one, who used to challenge the government and challenge the country’s Home minister, had to run and hide today,” he said.
The VHP leader alleged that Khalistan is “a new business, especially in Canada and England,” and said every Indian should rise and protest against it.
(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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March 20, 2023
Maha CM should adopt Yogi model & use bulldozers to remove encroachments: T Raja Singh

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Aurangabad: Suspended BJP leader from Telangana, T Raja Singh, has said Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde should imitate his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath and demolish illegal encroachments on government lands using bulldozers.
Addressing a gathering in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, formerly Aurangabad, on Sunday Singh said Shinde should ensure that encroachments from forts of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj are removed and he should be known as “bulldozer Shinde”.
He was addressing a morcha organised by Sakal Hindu Samaj in the city demanding a law against “love jihad”.
“The Maharashtra Chief Minister should follow the pattern set by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The encroachments on government lands should be identified and they should be removed by procuring 100 bulldozers,” said Singh, an MLA from Hyderabad.
Singh also said the encroachments from the forts of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj should be removed just like the tomb of Afzal Khan at the Pratapgad fort in Satara district of Maharashtra.
“Shinde should also be known as bulldozer Eknath Shinde”, he said.
Shinde, who heads the Shiv Sena faction, shares power with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra.
Speaking about opposition from some quarters to the recent renaming of Aurangabad city in Maharashtra, Singh said, “Secular people say Muslims were members of Shivaji Maharaj’s force. If that is so why do they oppose the renaming?”

Another speaker Suresh Chavanke said that people should not purchase anything from shops which have “Aurangabad” written on their boards, and they should be banned.
“Now the name of Aurangabad is changed, we should also change the character of this city,” he said.
Maharashtra ministers Atul Save and Sandipan Bhumre were present on the dais at the event.
Singh is known for giving acerbic speeches against Muslims.
Recently, an offence was registered in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar against Singh after a video of his vitriolic speech targeting Muslims went viral on social media.
The MLA was also recently questioned by Latur police in Maharashtra over another provocative tirade of his, officials had said.
“Whoever speaks against Hindus, we will not spare them. In our Hindu Rashtra you won’t even get a loudspeaker to do what you do five times a day,” Singh had said while addressing a public meeting in Rahta tehsil in Ahmednagar district.
Singh was also heard saying that if someone wants to beat “lande” (a derogatory reference to Muslims), he should join Bajrang Dal. He is also heard seeking the support of youth to make India a “Hindu Rashtra”.
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March 20, 2023
News reporters must not become activists with ‘vested interests’: Minister Jitendra Singh

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Jammu: The news reporters must not become activists with vested interests, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Sunday as he called for showing the brighter side of the government which had taken many historical decisions for public good.
He also said under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the COVID-19 adversity turned into an opportunity as world’s first DNA vaccine and nasal vaccine for the coronavirus was indigenously developed bolstering India as a vaccine development and manufacturing centre.
The Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s office was speaking at two separate functions here.
“The media must show the brighter side of the government like the DoNER model of development in the North-East which has changed the development paradigms of the region, the ‘StartUp Stand-up’ revolution, historical decision of abolishing interviews for non-gazetted posts and the deep sea mission under the leadership of Modi,” said Singh, a former minister of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER).
“The socio-economic reforms made by this government like the family pension to the divorce daughter, family pension to the families of missing government employees especially in J&K and North East and the digital life certificate must be brought to the public by the media so that information is disseminated to the deserving,” he said at the launch of J&K chapter of Public Relations Society of India (PRSI) here.
He said the reporters must not become activists with vested interests as biases can creep in making news not newsworthy.
“Communication is emerging now as an institution and it becomes the responsibility of PRSI to place the institution above the individual for the welfare of the people,” the minister said.
He said the greater responsibility of PRSI is to fill the gaps in government communication in such a manner that the people are informed by the media according to the development communication models.

Calling Modi as the “best communicator in the world”, Singh said he has initiated new areas, laid the foundation of unexplored areas which were never in news, the best example being the ‘Swachhta’.
Attending Medicos Meet ‘Celebrating the Multi-faceted’, he said under Modi, the COVID-19 adversity turned into an opportunity in India when world’s first DNA vaccine and nasal vaccine for coronavirus was indigenously developed in India which has not only strengthened ‘AtmaNirbhar Bharat’ but also bolstered India’s status as a worldwide vaccine development and manufacturing centre.
On the occasion, the latest 2023 edition of the RSSDI Text Book of Diabetes Mellitus for postgraduate students was released. The book has the foreword and an exclusive chapter by Singh, who is also a nationally known diabetologist and Professor of Diabetes and Medicine.
“The path breaking decisions by the Modi-led government will be written in the golden words in history not done from the last 70 years, be that the done away with the attestation by a gazetted officer,” he said.
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March 19, 2023
Notice to Punjab on habeas corpus to present Amritpal Singh

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Chandigarh: Punjab and Haryana High Court on Sunday issued notice to the Punjab government on a habeas corpus petition seeking issuance of directions to the Jalandhar Commissioner of Police and other officials to present alleged detainee Amritpal Singh “in the interest of justice”.
Justice N S Shekhawat fixed the case for further hearing on Tuesday.
Petitioner Imaan Singh Khara alleged that ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief Amritpal Singh had been illegally and forcibly detained by the police commissioner and other officials without any authority of law.
Directions were also sought for the appointment of a warrant officer to visit the “spot”.
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March 19, 2023
Suspense over arrest of radical Amritpal Singh in Punjab continues

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Chandigarh: Suspense continued over the arrest of radical Sikh preacher and Khalistani sympathiser Amritpal Singh in Punjab on Saturday after his dramatic escape from a high-speed chase by the state police, officials said.
However, seven people accompanying him and carrying ammunition were arrested but Amritpal Singh, the chief of ‘Waris Punjab De’, managed to escape by changing his vehicle that was chased by the police to another one.
Meanwhile, the number of arrested people owing allegiance to Amritpal Singh rose to 78.
Some police officials told IANS that he has been zeroed in Sarih village in Nakodar tehsil in Jalandhar district where he was convinced to surrender.
A house-to-house search operation in villages in Nakodar is on, said a senior official. Even the central paramilitary forces have been involved in the search operation.
Meanwhile, internet services across the state were suspended as a precautionary step.
Supporters of Amritpal Singh have been sharing videos of police vehicles chasing Singh’s cavalcade in Moga district.
Anticipating disturbance of peace, a large contingent of the paramilitary force was deployed outside his native village, Jallupur Khaira, in Amritsar district.

A special team of the police, comprising personnel from seven districts, had followed the separatist leader’s convoy while he was on his way to Jalandhar’s Shahkot tehsil. They had closed on his vehicles two to three times but Amritpal Singh managed to escape.
Section 144 has been imposed in many districts of the state. The police have also increased security in the state. In addition, all vehicles are being checked at the Punjab-Haryana border.
Thirty-year-old Amritpal Singh, a pro-Khalistan fiery propagator and self-styled preacher, has been running ‘separatist’ propaganda through speeches. Three cases, including two of delivering hate speeches, have been pending against him.
On the radar of Central investigating agencies, he has drawn comparisons to Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale owing to his similar looks and donning a navy blue turban, a white chola, and a sword-sized kirpan.
On February 23, an armed mob led by Amritpal Singh clashed with police and laid siege to a police station near Amritsar, demanding the release of one of their colleagues who had been taken into custody in an alleged kidnapping case.
Six policemen were injured in the bloody clash.
Police officials had later clarified that they were unable to control the crowd as they were carrying a physical copy of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, also called Bir in Punjabi, as a shield.
As the Internet was suspended on Saturday, Punjab Police urged people to maintain peace and harmony and not to spread panic, fake news or hate speech.
“Punjab Police is working to maintain law and order,” the Punjab Police tweeted. “All mobile internet services, all SMS services (except banking & mobile recharge) & all dongle services provided on mobile networks, except voice call, in the territorial jurisdiction of Punjab shall be suspended from 18th March (12:00 hours) to 19th March (12:00 hours) in the interest of public safety”.
Reacting to Amritpal’s purported arrest, Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu said the man who “used to talk about taking up arms for Khalistan is today running away fearing the police”.
“Does a Sikh ever run away? He would have faced the police if he had courage. He is running around in the streets like a jackal. I used to say earlier, too, that he has come to get our children killed. He is a man of (intelligence) agencies,” he said.
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March 18, 2023
Amritpal Singh maintaining close links with ISI, terror groups: Sources

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New Delhi: Radical preacher Amritpal Singh, who is on the run following a police crackdown, has been maintaining close links with Pakistani intelligence agency ISI and some terrorist groups based abroad, official sources said on Saturday.
Amritpal Singh, who had even issued a veiled threat to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, has been trying to destabilise the situation in Punjab by indoctrinating and attracting the Sikh youth into the fold of his outfit “Waris Punjab De”.
The radical preacher is believed to be a close associate of UK-based Khalistani terrorist Avtar Singh Khanda. Khanda is believed to behind Amritpal Singh’s meteoric rise, sources said.
Khanda is a trusted lieutenant of leader of the banned Babbar Khalsa International Paramjit Singh Pamma, who often holds theoretical training classes for the Sikh youth to radicalise them.
The trio have been aiming to destabilise Punjab by ideological indoctrination of the Sikh youth with extremist views, they said.
Khanda gives online demonstrations from Birmingham and Glasgow on how to make improvised explosive devices by using commonly available chemicals.
Amritpal Singh also has links with chief of the International Sikh Youth Federation Lakhbir Singh Rode, who is wanted in India in cases of smuggling of arms and explosives, including RDX, conspiracy to attack government leaders in New Delhi and spreading hatred in Punjab.
When Amritpal Singh was in Dubai, he was in close touch with Rode’s brother Jaswant.

The radical preacher was known for asking his comrades to stay armed and he formed a new group called Anandpur Khalsa Army (AKF). This group is always around him with dangerous weapons, they said.
Amritpal Singh, who was a transport operator in Dubai, came in contact with the ISI there, sources said.
The agents of the ISI believed to have told him to motivate the innocent young Sikhs in the name of religion.
After coming to Punjab, at the behest of the ISI, Amritpal Singh tried to spread the influence of his group ‘Waris Punjab De’.
Later, he launched a campaign called ‘Khalsa Waheer’ and strengthened his organisation by going to villages.
He stirred up the issues of Punjab and started inciting the Sikhs against the Government of India.
He has been successful in getting people to do what he wanted under the guise of religion and this helped the ISI to carry out its design in Punjab, they said.
Amritpal Singh was anointed the head of the ‘Waris Punjab De’ following the death of its founder – actor and activist Deep Sidhu – in a road accident in February last year. The event was held at Moga’s Rode, the native village of slain militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.
A major police crackdown was underway in Punjab against radical preacher Amritpal Singh and his supporters over charges of spreading communal tension in the state.
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March 18, 2023
Karni Sena founder Lokendra Singh Kalvi dies in Rajasthan

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Jaipur: Rajput leader and Karni Sena founder Lokendra Singh Kalvi passed away at a state-run hospital here on Tuesday.
Family sources said he suffered a cardiac arrest late in the night and breathed his last. Kalvi was admitted to the Sawai Man Singh Hospital for the past few days.
His funeral was conducted at his ancestral village, Kalvi, in Nagaur district.
His elder son Bhawani Singh lit the funeral pyre.
Food and civil supplies minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas, RTDC chairman Dharmendra Rathore and other leaders paid floral tributes to Kalvi before the funeral.
Earlier, Governor Kalraj Mishra, BJP state president Satish Poonia, former chief minister Vasundhara Raje, Shri Kshatriya Yuvak Sangh patron Bhagwan Singh Rolsahabsar and other leaders expressed condolences on the demise of Kalvi.
Kalvi suffered a brain stroke in June last year and he was not well since then.
The son of former Union minister Kalyan Singh Kalvi, Lokendra was the patron of Shree Rajput Karni Sena, which had led the 2018 protests against Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film “Padmaavat” for alleged distortion of historical facts.

He had also been a national-level basketball player.
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March 14, 2023
Maha: Raja Singh booked for vitriolic speech against Muslims

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Pune: An offence has been registered in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar against suspended BJP MLA from Telangana T Raja Singh after a video of his vitriolic speech targeting Muslims went viral on social media.
The MLA was also recently questioned by Latur police in Maharashtra over another provocative tirade of his, officials said.
“Whoever speaks against Hindus, we will not spare them,” Singh is heard telling the sizeable crowd comprising mostly youth in Rahta tehsil in Ahmednagar district at a recent public meeting.
“In our Hindu Rashtra you won’t even get a loudspeaker to do what you do five times a day,” he said, in an apparent reference to Muslims offering prayers.
Singh also claimed that in a media interview several years ago, Shiv Sena founder late Bal Thackeray had spoken of “eliminating” insects and cockroaches (Muslims) with a spray.
Singh is heard saying that if someone wants to beat ‘lande’ (a derogatory reference to Muslims), he should join Bajrang Dal. He is also heard seeking the support of youth to make India a ‘Hindu Rashtra’.
“Let the lande’ of Maharashtra know that the army of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is ready. Let those who talk against Hindus or slaughter cows know that we are ready,” he is heard saying.
India will be declared as “akhand Hindu rashtra” by 2026, Singh said.

The names of Ahmednagar and Hyderabad (capital of Telangana) cities will be changed to Ahilyabainagar and Bhagyanagar, respectively, he said.
“Hindus are demanding the country be made an ‘Akhand Hindu Rashtra’. If there can be more than 50 Islamic countries and more than 150 Christian nations, why can’t India be declared a Hindu Rashtra given that Hindus constitute a majority of its 100 million people?
“Come what may, in 2025 and 2026, India will be declared as ‘Akhand Hindu Rashtra’. I am not saying this, this is the roar of all sadhus and sants and it is their prophecy,” said Singh, amid cheers by the crowd.
A senior official of Ahmednagar police on Tuesday said they have registered a case against the MLA.
“Based on a complaint, we have registered an offence against Singh and the organizers of the event under sections 295 A (Deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage reli gious feelings), 504 (Intentional insult to provoke breach of peace), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code,” he said.
Singh, who has a history of making incendiary communal speeches, was arrested last year for remarks against Prophet Mohammed.
In Maharashtra, he has addressed rallies in Solapur, Amravati, Latur, Karad, Pune and Mumbai in recent weeks.
At a rally in Latur on February 19, Singh said, “Teach a lesson to Afzal’s illegitimate sons. Nobody propagating love jihad should be alive on Maharashtra’s soil.”
On February 27, Latur police booked Singh for his speech under sections 295-A and 153 (provocation with intent to cause rioting) of the IPC.
Latur’s Superintendent of Police Somay Munde said a first information report was filed and police are investigating the matter.
Another police official in Latur said that police have questioned Singh and are in the process of filing a charge sheet against him.
The MLA from Goshamahal in Hyderabad is known for his controversial remarks against Muslims.
Following an uproar over his remarks against Islam and Prophet Mohammed, the BJP had suspended Singh from the party in August 2022.
Singh was arrested in connection with the case and secured bail.
Singh faces several police cases in Hyderabad including those related to alleged communal offences.
The Telangana High Court in November 2022 ordered his release, two-and-a-half months after he was detained under the Act, and also granted him conditional bail in the case.
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March 14, 2023