Security concerns have recently spiked as police have hunted the self-described separatist Amritpal Singh
Calls for Khalistan resonate with some Sikhs overseas. In March, Amritpal’s image was projected on a
Bhindranwale’s image, removed from gurdwaras — Sikh temples — and siloed into private spaces during the 1980s, has. Although for some it reflects Khalistani sympathies, for others it is a symbol of Sikh resistance against perceived historical injustices. “There is obviously anger among the people,” said Anup Singh, a 40-year-old man wearing a traditional Sikh robe in Jallapur Khera, Amritpal’s home village. He pointed to a problem cited across the state: an epidemic of drug addiction, which took three young lives in his village last year. Even former police officials allege that Punjab’s drug problem is tied to government and police collusion.
And the arrest of more than 200 people could further stoke that fire. “Once you put them in jail, you radicalize them for life,” said Kiranjot Kaur, a granddaughter of a key Sikh political leader and member of a gurdwara management committee that acts as a Sikh governing body.
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