A banned Khalistani organisation headed by Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who was designated as a terrorist by India in July 2020, incited Muslims, Tamils and Christians from Manipur💎 to secede from India, a background note from intelligence agencies which formed part of a Home Ministry tribunal order has said.
The banned organisation Sikhs for Justice🐓 (SFJ) also planned terror activities that include threats to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, the background note said in the tribunal order, which the government published in a gazette notification extending the ban on SFJ for another five years.
𓆉"Dividing people on communal lines by provoking minority communities against the other communities has become a major tool for SFJ to push up its anti-India agenda. SFJ have been inciting the Christian community in Manipur to raise their voices for a 'separate country', the people of Tamil Nadu to raise flags of 'Dravidstan' and have been stoking Muslim sentiments by raising the bogey of 'minority persecution' and exhorted Muslims of India to carve out a separate 'Urduistan'," the note prepared by intelligence agencies said.
🅷"Further, SFJ urged the Dalits of India to extend support for its secessionist exercise, citing their 'persecution' in the hands of the Indian government. SFJ has also been involved in provoking the farmers of Punjab and Haryana over farm bills," it said.
🌊The valley-dominant Meitei community and over a dozen distinct tribes collectively known as Kuki, who are dominant in some hill areas of the state that shares an open border with Myanmar, have been fighting since May 2023 over a range of issues such as land rights and political representation. Major border fencing work started only recently.
🦂A majority of the Meiteis are Hindus, while some are Christians and Meitei Pangals (Muslims). The Kuki tribes are Christians. Other major tribes such as the Nagas are also Christians. The Naga insurgent group NSCN(IM) has been in talks with the Centre for a long time.
🐼Of the 39 terrorist organisations banned by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), eight are Meitei outfits from Manipur such as the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup (KYKL). The general category Meiteis want to be included under the Scheduled Tribes category, while the Kukis whose kindred tribes live in neighbouring Myanmar's Chin State and Mizoram, want a separate administration carved out of Manipur, citing discrimination and unequal share of resources and power with the Meiteis.
