Coronavirus pandemic seems to have cast a shadow on the Sikh Referendum 2020 for a separate Khalistan state from India. Going by the reports, the scheduled referendum, an exercise by US-based body Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) to know the opinion of Sikhs for a separate Sikh state, has been deferred to 2022.

According to a Pakistani private TV channel, Referendum 2020 was scheduled to be held in November 2020 but has been deferred due to coronavirus pandemic. The new date for holding the referendum would be announced soon, the report said.

Earlier, Pakistan’s Khalistani Sikh leader Gopal Singh Chawla had hinted at a delay in holding the referendum, saying that, “Neither is it written in Quran nor in Guru Granth Sahib that Referendum 2020 has to be held in 2020 only.” As the news of reported deferment started making rounds in social media on Thursday, a Twitterite Devinder Singh commented: “SFJ postponed its Referendum 2020 propaganda to the year 2022. Two more years of collecting money from innocents”.

In its so called ‘London Declaration’, SFJ had announced to hold the first ever referendum in November 2020 among the global Sikh community regarding secession from India and re-establishing Punjab as an independent country.

While confirming the development, sources in the intelligence department, said there were organisations which were inimical to Hindu and Sikh fraternity in Punjab and want to create a trouble among them through malicious campaign.

Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/amritsar/sfj-referendum-deferred-to-2022/articleshow/76080314.cms

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