On Monday evening, Paramjit Singh Mand, the spokesperson of Dal Khalsa – a Sikh organization based in Amritsar, Punjab, released a video message on Facebook showing solidarity with the Kashmiri students who were physically assaulted by goons from Haryana, U.P., and Bihar after Pakistan’s victory in the T-20 match between India and Pakistan.
Pertinently, after the match resulted in Pakistan’s victory on Sunday, some goons from U.P., Bihar, and Haryana went to the rooms of the Kashmiri students staying at Punjab-based private college hostels and assaulted them, asking them to “Go to Pakistan.”
The organisation said in a statement, “We all have a responsibility to protect the students, especially the Kashmiri students who come to study in Punjab for their greener pastures.”
“We assure the families of Kashmiri students that their children are safe in Punjab and their safety is our moral responsibility,” Paramjit Singh Mand said.
He reiterated that students who are here in Punjab from different parts of India must learn one thing that “Punjab should be considered as Punjab, not India, where any Muslim is killed in the name of patriotism.”
Referring to the incidents that took place, he said that after India’s defeat at the hands of Pakistan in T20 cricket match, there have been reports of youths from UP, Haryana, and Bihar have attacked some Kashmiri students in the Bhai Gurdas Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sangrur. “Such incidents cannot be tolerated under any circumstances,” he stressed.
He also said that the Indian media presented the cricket matches between India and Pakistan as “war.” “For their own businesses, they play with the emotions of people and as a result, these types of incidents are happening in universities and colleges,” said Mr. Mand.