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LONDON: Pro-Khalistan Sikh activists replaced the Indian flag with the free Khalistan flag at London High Commission in a show of support for more than 11,000 Sikhs, some 8,000 miles away, taking part in the second phase of Khalistan Referendum voting in the Australian city of Brisbane.
The footage showed a group of around two dozen Sikh youth gathering outside the Indian High Commission in Central London raising Sikh religious slogans and calling for the creation of Khalistan.
One of the turbaned men starts scaling the high commission from the front of the building and makes it to the top balcony where the Indian flag is hoisted. Within 30 seconds, the Sikh man takes off the Indian Tiranga and replaces the Indian flag with the Khalistan flag. Meanwhile, the supporters on the ground take off the Indian flag completely as the Khalistan flag is raised.
Two Indian high commission staff appeared on the balcony from inside and the standoff continues for a few minutes before the Sikh man comes off the balcony. This is the first time that the Indian flag has been taken off the Indian High Commission building – as tensions between the Hindutva Indian authorities and Sikhs grow worldwide over complaints of worsening human rights violations of Sikhs in India.
