On Republic Day, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, threatened Prime Minister Narendra Modi once more on Tuesday, January 16.

Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the founder of the outlawed Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a designated terrorist who resides in the US, has threatened again just ahead of the 75th Republic Day.

Pro-Khalist graffiti has been seen throughout the nation’s capital in a number of images that have gone popular on social media. Threats were written in the graffiti before the Republic Day procession on January 26. It states that the outlaw group SFJ wants to “avenge” the killing of terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Khalistani.

“I challenge you, Modi, to visit Delhi without protection. He was heard saying in a video by Business Today, “If you are a popular leader, come to Delhi on R-Day without security and SFJ (Sikhs For Justice) is going to avenge the assassination of Shaheed Nijjar by raising the Khalistan flag.”

On January 26, Republic Day, Pannun also urged gangsters to band together and attack Punjab’s Director General of Police, Gaurav Yadav, and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, according to India Today.

Pannun to Avenge Nijjas’ Death?

A number of other images of pro-Khalistani graffiti purportedly written throughout New Delhi with threats to “avenge” the killing of terrorist Khalistani Hardeep Singh Nijjar appeared on social media. Nijjar was killed in Surrey, Canada, in June 2023, just outside a gurdwara.

Pannun has been aggressively encouraging youth and gang members on social media to support Khalistan.
Not only was the founder of Sikhs For Justice declared a “designated individual terrorist” by the Centre in 2020, but he had also threatened India in the past.

Pannun made a threat to attack Parliament on or before December 13, 2023—the anniversary of the 2001 attacks—in a video that he uploaded in December of that year.

Pannuns’ Earlier threats and advisory’s

Pannun warned the Sikh community in November 2023 not to travel on Air India after November 19 because they would be in danger. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has since filed a complaint against him in response to this.

He advised Hindu Canadians to leave Canada in September amid growing tensions over the diplomatic spat between India and Canada over the death of Nijjar.

The government declared the SFJ to be an “unlawful association” in 2019 and banned it, claiming that it was involved in “anti-national and subversive” actions. Ever since the NIA filed its first case against the terrorists, Pannun has been on the agency’s radar. Pannun was designated a ‘Proclaimed Offender (PO)’ on November 29, 2022, after the NIA Special Court issued non-bailable warrants against him on February 3, 2021.

In addition, Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national, was charged by US officials for his suspected role in a plot to kill Pannun in the US in November of last year. US officials claimed that Gupta had given an assassin $100,000 to carry out the murder. Authorities in the US requested that Gupta be detained in the Czech Republic.

With Republic day ahead let’s see how the security threat is tackled by the Indian Government.