Who is Deep Sidhu accused for instigating violence and hoisting flag at Red Fort?

New Delhi: After the movies went viral on social media exhibiting actor-turned-activist Deep Sidhu handed over a flag to a person to hoist on the ramparts of the Red Fort on the Republic Day throughout farmers’ tractor rally, many have raised doubts over his political affiliation, claiming that “he is a worker of a political Party”.
Who is Deep Sidhu?
Deep Sidhu is a Punjabi actor who was born in 1984 in Punjab’s Muktsar district. His profession in movies began with a debut in Ramta Jogi in 2015. He had studied legislation and was additionally part of the Bar for a short interval earlier than he received the Kingfisher Model Hunt award.
Sidhu was with Deol throughout the 2019 Lok Sabha election marketing campaign when the actor was contesting elections from the Gurdaspur seat of Punjab. Now, his images with BJP MP Sunny Deol and Prime Minister Narendra Modi additionally went viral publish the Republic Day violence.

What are farmer leaders saying?
After the Red Fort incident, Sidhu posted a video on his Facebook web page claiming that, “We have only hoisted the Nishan Sahib at the Red Fort while exercising our democratic right to protest.”Responding to Sidhu’s video, Bhartiya Kisan Union Rakesh spokesperson Rakesh Tikait mentioned that “Deep Sidhu is not a Sikh, he is a worker of the BJP.”

The BKU chief asserted that those that created violence and unfurled flags at Red Fort should pay for his or her deeds. “For the last two months, a conspiracy is going on against a particular community. This is not a movement of Sikhs, but farmers. Our issues remain the same and our protest will continue,” he mentioned.

Deep Sidhu सिख नहीं BJP का कार्यकर्ता है, उसकी मोदी के साथ फोटो है- राकेश टिकैत| #DeepSidhu #FarmersProtest #GurnamSinghChaduni | pic.twitter.com/yVq7O6TNNr
— Newsroom Post (@NewsroomPostCom) January 27, 2021

Farmer chief SS Pandher of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee mentioned: “Some miscreants joined the protest to defame farmers’ movement. We did not plan to unfurl the flags at Red Fort, this was not our program. Deep Sidhu’s photo with the Prime Minister has floated, we had already expressed doubt over him.”
What Sunny Deol mentioned?
BJP MP Sunny Deol whose image with PM Modi and Sidhu went viral on social media, took to Twitter to make clear that he has “no relation” with the actor turned activist.
“I am very sad to see what happened at Red Fort today, I have already cleared through Facebook on December 6 that I or my family have no relation with Deep Sidhu,” he tweeted.

आज लाल क़िले पर जो हुआ उसे देख कर मन बहुत दुखी हुआ है, मैं पहले भी, 6 December को ,Twitter के माध्यम से यह साफ कर चुका हूँ कि मेरा या मेरे परिवार का दीप सिद्धू के साथ कोई संबंध नही है।जय हिन्द
— Sunny Deol (@iamsunnydeol) January 26, 2021

Leaders of farmer unions protesting in opposition to the farm legal guidelines have mentioned that Sidhu had directed youth to maneuver in the direction of the Red Fort yesterday.
On Tuesday, protesters agitating in opposition to the brand new farm legal guidelines entered the premises of Red Fort within the nationwide capital and waved flags they had been carrying from its ramparts.
A day after the violence broke out throughout a tractor rally in varied components of the nationwide capital, safety has been heightened on the Singhu border (Delhi-Haryana border), and Tikri border, the place farmers have been protesting in opposition to agricultural legal guidelines for over two months. Numerous safety forces has been deployed on the protest websites.

Farmers broke barricades to enter Delhi and indulged in vandalism throughout a number of components of the nationwide capital throughout their Kisan tractor rally organised to protest in opposition to the Centre’s three new farm legal guidelines. Several private and non-private properties being broken in acts of vandalism by the rioting mob.
Farmers have been protesting on the completely different borders of the nationwide capital since November 26 in opposition to the three newly enacted farm legal guidelines – Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.