Key Points
Police in Indias border state of Punjab have been in pursuit of a fugitive Sikh separatist leader for several days even cutting off mobile internet and text messaging services for the regions more than 27 million people to prevent his supporters from gathering...
The self-styled preacher, Amritpal Singh, has called on his followers to revive a banned secessionist movement that fought to create an independent state called Khalistan for followers of the Sikh faith in Punjab in the 1980s and early 1990s...
What is the Khalistan movement?. The so-called Khalistan movement was the fight for an independent state for Indias Sikh population in the Punjab region..
His calls to revive the secessionist movement have drawn some parallels to Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who led the movement in the 1980s..
How have supporters overseas responded?. In recent days, small groups of Singhs supporters vandalized the Indian High Commission in London, pulling down the national flag and briefly flying the orange and blue flags of the Khalistan movement..
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