Khalistan supporters protested outside the Indian high commission in London for the second time in four days on Wednesday. This time, however, police were present to keep protesters away from the high commission, and barricades, too, were put up to secure the building further.
Visuals shared by news agency ANI showed demonstrators, many of whom held the yellow flag of the proposed Sikh sovereign state Khalistan, staging anti-India protest as the British capital’s Metropolitan Police kept guard.
#WATCH | London, UK | Anti-India protests by Khalistanis behind Police barricade. Metropolitan Police on guard at Indian High Commission. pic.twitter.com/YDYKX39Bit
— ANI (@ANI) March 22, 2023
#WATCH | London Metropolitan Police patrols outside the Indian High Commission in London, UK. pic.twitter.com/rCId56lmdW
— ANI (@ANI) March 22, 2023
#WATCH | London, UK | Anti-India protests by Khalistanis behind Police barricade. Metropolitan Police on guard at Indian High Commission. pic.twitter.com/Kt7kvlHGEq
— ANI (@ANI) March 22, 2023
On March 19, a Khalistan supporter, who was part of a group protesting the crackdown launched in India against radical Sikh preacher and Khalistan propagator Amritpal Singh, managed to climb on to a balcony of the Indian mission – the building at the time, was unguarded – and brought down the Indian Tricolour erected there. The incident, as well as the UK’s seeming indifference towards securing the mission, triggered massive outrage in India, with New Delhi taking it up with the counterparts in London.
Source- Hindustan Times.
