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Amritpal Singh
Amritpal Singh Sandhu (born 17 January 1993) is an Indian pro-Khalistan separatist, self-styled Sikh preacher, and politician. He is a Member of the Indian Parliament in the Lok Sabha representing the constituency of Khadoor Sahib since 2024.
After living in Dubai for a decade, he returned to Punjab in September 2022, having been controversially appointed as the leader of Waris Punjab De; he started an anti-drugs campaign, encouraging the youth to adopt a traditionalist form of Sikhism and advocated for a sovereign Sikh state in Punjab called Khalistan.
Indian intelligence sources claim that Singh has been supported by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and that he has stockpiled arms while raising a private militia called Anandpur Khalsa Fauj (AKF). In March 2023, the state government, acting in coordination with the central government, launched an intense crackdown on Singh and his associates. He was arrested on 23 April 2023 under the National Security Act (India).
Amritpal Singh Sandhu was born on 17 January 1993, in Jallupur Khera, a village in the Baba Bakala tehsil of Amritsar district of Punjab, India. He was the youngest of the three children of Tarsem Singh and Balwinder Kaur. His family is said to be very religious. His uncle Harjit Singh Sandhu was the sarpanch (head of village) for 10 years before moving to the United Kingdom.
After passing the 10th class, Amritpal enrolled in a diploma course in mechanical engineering at Lord Krishna Polytechnic College in Kapurthala in 2009. He dropped out after three years, never having completed the course.
In 2012, he moved to Dubai in UAE to join his family's transport business. His LinkedIn profile claimed that he has a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Punjab. His profile further claimed that he was the "Operations Manager" at a company called Sandhu Cargo Transport and that he had experience in transportation, trucking and railroad industry. According to The Indian Express, he worked as a dispatcher for about ten years. Some sources state that he was a truck driver. However, many details of his time in Dubai for the rest of the decade remain unknown.
Amritpal often spoke about issues concerning Punjab on social media. In 2019, he started supporting the farmers' protest and also became a vocal supporter of Deep Sidhu. His social media reach multiplied after he got associated with Sidhu. He travelled to India to support the protest. At that time, he was a Sahajdhari. After the farm laws were withdrawn, he returned to Dubai.
During the farmers' protest, the actor-turned-activist Deep Sidhu attempted to broaden the agenda of the agitation into fighting for the "rights of Punjab". Amritpal is said to have been a vocal supporter of Sidhu and his role in the agitation. Sidhu is alleged to have led a group of farmers to storm the Red Fort in Delhi on the Republic Day of 2021. He was arrested for the action and spent a few months in prison. After getting released on bail, he founded the Waris Punjab De ("Heirs of Punjab") organisation to fight for what he termed the rights of Punjab.
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Amritpal Singh
Amritpal Singh Sandhu (born 17 January 1993) is an Indian pro-Khalistan separatist, self-styled Sikh preacher, and politician. He is a Member of the Indian Parliament in the Lok Sabha representing the constituency of Khadoor Sahib since 2024.
After living in Dubai for a decade, he returned to Punjab in September 2022, having been controversially appointed as the leader of Waris Punjab De; he started an anti-drugs campaign, encouraging the youth to adopt a traditionalist form of Sikhism and advocated for a sovereign Sikh state in Punjab called Khalistan.
Indian intelligence sources claim that Singh has been supported by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and that he has stockpiled arms while raising a private militia called Anandpur Khalsa Fauj (AKF). In March 2023, the state government, acting in coordination with the central government, launched an intense crackdown on Singh and his associates. He was arrested on 23 April 2023 under the National Security Act (India).
Amritpal Singh Sandhu was born on 17 January 1993, in Jallupur Khera, a village in the Baba Bakala tehsil of Amritsar district of Punjab, India. He was the youngest of the three children of Tarsem Singh and Balwinder Kaur. His family is said to be very religious. His uncle Harjit Singh Sandhu was the sarpanch (head of village) for 10 years before moving to the United Kingdom.
After passing the 10th class, Amritpal enrolled in a diploma course in mechanical engineering at Lord Krishna Polytechnic College in Kapurthala in 2009. He dropped out after three years, never having completed the course.
In 2012, he moved to Dubai in UAE to join his family's transport business. His LinkedIn profile claimed that he has a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Punjab. His profile further claimed that he was the "Operations Manager" at a company called Sandhu Cargo Transport and that he had experience in transportation, trucking and railroad industry. According to The Indian Express, he worked as a dispatcher for about ten years. Some sources state that he was a truck driver. However, many details of his time in Dubai for the rest of the decade remain unknown.
Amritpal often spoke about issues concerning Punjab on social media. In 2019, he started supporting the farmers' protest and also became a vocal supporter of Deep Sidhu. His social media reach multiplied after he got associated with Sidhu. He travelled to India to support the protest. At that time, he was a Sahajdhari. After the farm laws were withdrawn, he returned to Dubai.
During the farmers' protest, the actor-turned-activist Deep Sidhu attempted to broaden the agenda of the agitation into fighting for the "rights of Punjab". Amritpal is said to have been a vocal supporter of Sidhu and his role in the agitation. Sidhu is alleged to have led a group of farmers to storm the Red Fort in Delhi on the Republic Day of 2021. He was arrested for the action and spent a few months in prison. After getting released on bail, he founded the Waris Punjab De ("Heirs of Punjab") organisation to fight for what he termed the rights of Punjab.
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