India's Most Wanted Amritpal Singh Entered The Punjab Scene Through Clubhouse App

Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh.India’s most wanted fugitive Amritpal Singh of Waris Punjab De group entered the public discourse on the Punjab issue through social media app ClubHouse.The voice-based app allows users to set up ‘audio rooms’ to talk, listen and counter-talk with other users. Such audio-rooms allow thousands of people at a time.A report by The Tribune says that the audio-room in which Amritpal first registered his presence as a person interested in Sikh and Punjab matters was formed by late Deep Sidhu in 2021 during the farmers’ agitation on the Delhi-Haryana border. Amritpal was settled in Dubai at that time, where he worked as a taxi driver.Sidhu was then an actor working in Punjabi films who was trying to take a leading role in the protests, which was mainly a show of Sikhs and some Hindus from the dominant land-owning Jat caste in Punjab and Haryana.The Tribune report says that Amritpal was initially only a listener, but was soon made a speaker in the ClubHouse audio-room. As per the report, Sidhu blocked Amritpal as the latter often spoke about the creation of Khalistan – a separate country for Sikhs carved from within the Indian territory, as demanded
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