‘Will shake foundations of Parliament’: Pannun vows response to ‘bid on life’ | India News

US-based pro-Khalistan terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has threatened to take action that will “shake the very foundations of Parliament” on or before December 13, the anniversary of the 2001 attack. This, he said in a statement, was in response to “India’s foiled assassination” bid on him.
Pannun, who has dual citizenship of the US and Canada, released a video that featured a poster with his photo alongside that of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, who was hanged in 2013, with the caption “Delhi Banega Khalistan“.Indian security agencies and Delhi Police are stepping up security in and around New Delhi district to thwart any such bid by SFJ operatives.

Pannun’s anti-India campaign on for 2 years

The US had recently claimed to have thwarted a bid on Pannun’s life in June, allegedly by assassins having an Indian connection. An Indian-origin drug trafficker named Nikhil Gupta was detained by Czech authorities at Prague airport on June 30 at the US government’s request. He was accused of working with an undercover cop and hiring an informant of Drug Enforcement Agency to kill Pannun.

Gupta was subsequently handed over to the US authorities around the first week of November, shortly before an indictment was filed in a New York court.
In the aftermath of this development, pro-Khalistan elements had heckled India’s ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, in New York, accusing him of being part of a purported plot to assassinate Pannun on US soil.
The incident happened within two months of the Indian high commissioner to the UK, Vikram Doraiswami, facing a similar situation in Scotland where he was stopped from entering a gurdwara by pro-Khalistan extremists. That incident, too, had taken place amidst a row over Canada accusing India of involvement in the killing of another pro-Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Pannun has been on an offensive against India and its establishment globally in the last two years. There have been a series of aggressive actions by Khalistan supporters on Indian missions and officials posted there in Canada and the UK in the last one year. Pannun had also issued ‘kill posters’ naming top diplomats posted at missions in Ottawa and elsewhere.
An operative of Sikhs For Justice, Pannun’s outfit, arrested by Delhi Police’s special cell had revealed that Pannun had directed him to paint pro-Khalistan slogans at Delhi airport. He had also threatened to do a repeat of the Kanishka bombing of 1985.