UK: Khalistani organizations emerging as profitable business venture
The Khalistani organizations have not only increased significantly in the UK recently, but they have also emerged as a profitable business venture for those who do not have any other source to earn a living, media reports said.
Most of these organizations have joined hands with umbrella organizations of Federation of Sikh Organizations (FSO), Sikh Council UK (SCUK) or World Sikh Parliament (WSP) to remain in the limelight, reported Zee News.
Though these organizations may not have the support of most of the Sikh population in the UK, they keep on competing among each other to wrest the control of the management of Gurudwaras in the UK, reported the Indian news channel.
“But one should not ignore the fact that they wrestled among each other to control the management of Gurudwaras," a officer working in a security establishment told the news channel.
"It serves them multiple purposes like easy funding in name of sewa and charity, captive audience to listen to their propaganda from the stage, availability of ready-made venues for various meetings and events and the garb of a charitable organization to carry out their ulterior tasks," the official said.
Interestingly, Radical Sikh groups in the United Kingdom are trying to revive the Khalistan movement and even they are attempting fake propaganda against India.
Large posters of Jarnail Singh Bhidranwale can be seen hanging in all these Gurudwaras, eulogizing him as a martyr for Sikh homeland, reports Zee News.
"Once established, these organizations diversify into media, university unions and politics, to create a larger base for Khalistan cause," another officer told the news channel.
"And for the survival of these few individuals and Gurudwaras, the need to keep Khalistan alive is essential for their own benefits.
"Midland Langar Seva, Sikh2inspire, British Organisation of Sikh Students are few of the benign forms that these tendencies have brought forward and are actively engaged in attracting youth to their perception of Sikh values," the official said.
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