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Sidhu often quoted Martin Luther King Jr and Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale in his speeches demanding more rights for states. An integral part of the year-long farmers’ protest and an accused in the Red Fort violence case, Sidhu died in a road accident in February 2022.
The armed group that stormed the Ajnala police station near Amritsar in Punjab on Wednesday to get a man accused of assault and kidnapping released was led by Amritpal Singh who leads an outfit called Waris Punjab De. The organisation defines itself as a “pressure group” that was floated by actor Deep Sidhu who played a role in the 2020-’21 farm protests and was among the accused in the Red Fort violence case. Amritpal was a vocal supporter of Sidhu, who died in a car crash in February 2022, and the role the actor played during the farmers’ agitation.
Last September, as Amritpal Singh took charge of Waris Punjab De — calling on the youth from the community to “wake up” and “fight for the freedom” of the Panth and Punjab — the late actor’s family denied any links with Singh and alleged that he was “misusing Sidhu’s name” and “befooling the youth in the name of Khalistan”.
Sidhu’s first movie Ramta Jogi was released in 2015 but he became a star with filmmaker...