DON’T SUPPORT RUSSIA, the US.
Jake Sullaivan’s visit. Is it a ‘don’t support Russia move?
The G7 summit just got over in Italy. On the sidelines, America has openly told ‘Zelensky’, of Ukraine, that America will support it financially for the next ten years, and supply it with all the weapons it needs until Russia is defeated.
Our Prime Minister Modi too was invited to this summit as an observer. This invitation and thereby, Modiji’s participation in the G7 was probably to send out signal to Moscow that even India is against ‘Russia and its stand against Ukraine’. To this end they also planned a peace meeting on the sidelines, on the last day of the summit. But Modiji avoided attending this meeting, stating, that any peace talks, on the subject in the absence of Russian President Vladimir Putin, would be pointless and Bharat does not condone with holding such a meeting. Obviously, this stand of our Prime Minister was not to the liking of America.
GURPATWANT SINGH PANNUN.
A declared Khalistan terrorist by Bharat.
We are all aware that Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, is the leader of the Khalistan movement, which advocates for a religion-based separate state to be split from our Punjab and many neighbouring areas in India.
This Pannun, has claimed responsibility for various terror incidents in India in statements issued by him earlier. In April 2023, in a video, he issued a threat to the Prime Minister of India, during his visit to Assam. He has also been involved in filing lawsuits against Indian officials and institutions in international courts, alleging human rights violations against Sikhs.
According to the BBC, Pannun has released hundreds of videos censuring India and offering monetary rewards to people who write anti-India graffiti or hoist Khalistan flags on government buildings or desecrate the Indian flag. In September 2023, he was recorded, calling for the “political death” of Prime Minister Modi and two of his ministers. Pannun has also claimed responsibility for posters which read “kill India” along with the names and pictures of Indian diplomats. He however denies that the posters incite violence against the diplomats. In November 2023, Pannun issued threats of danger to individuals planning to travel by Air India on November 19. In a video widely circulated on social media, he stated: “We are asking the Sikh people not to fly via Air India on November 19, or their life will be in danger”. This was basically a veiled threat. Following this, in December, Pannun issued a statement threatening to “shake the foundation” of the Parliament House in New Delhi on or before 13 December which is the same day as the 2001 Indian Parliament Attack.
NIKHIL GUPTA
In November 2023, the British newspaper Financial Times (FT) reported that the United States authorities had “thwarted” a plot to kill Pannun in the United States, and that the federal prosecutors had filed a sealed indictment against a suspect in a New York district court. The FT also reported that the US had issued a diplomatic warning to India over concerns that the Government of India was involved in the plot.
In the meanwhile, Nikhil Gupta has emerged at the centre of an international assassination plot. The US sees the 52-year-old Indian man as crucial in a plan to kill the Sikh leader in the US. Arrested in the Czech Republic in June, last year, Nikhil Gupta is charged with planning to murder a US citizen. The “target” obviously is Pannun, a vocal critic of the Indian government and an advocate for separatist movement in Punjab, charged with a video calling for the killing of Bharat’s Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modiji.
JAKE SULLAIVAN’S VISIT.
The U S is telling us that this person Nikhil Gupta was commissioned to kill Guruptawant Singh Pannu by a field officer of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of India and the code name of the field officer is CC 1. It is seen by India, as an arm-twisting act of the U S and Jake Sullaivan is here with various excuses, only to achieve this end. And if successful the U S expects India to obey its diktats.
In view of all the above, Jake Sullaivan visited India on 17th&18th June. He is the equivalent of Ajit Kumar Doval, (India’s National Security Advisor) in the U S. During his, visit he met our External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and NSA Ajit Doval. This visit, has been viewed by Bharat, basically as a move, to arm twist India and make it stand in support of America’s stand against Russia. However it is cloaked as a discussion regarding Critical and Emerging Technologies (CET).
RESPONSE:
Russia has just announced that Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modiji will be visiting Russia, to meet Vladimir Putin, in a weeks’ time. The US, Jake Sullaivan and all the rest may draw whatever conclusion they may want to draw.
Major Biddanda Nanjappa,
Recipient of President’s Gold Medal
Convener FMCGT Forum.
The facts and views presented are of the author.
