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The Punjab Congress connected Friday (January 9, 2026) claimed that an FIR has been registered against its MLAs Sukhpal Khaira and Pargat Singh for sharing a video clip of AAP person Atishi, whom the BJP has accused of making derogatory remarks against the ninth Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur.
Leader of Opposition successful Punjab Assembly, Partap Singh Bajwa, termed the “FIR lodged by the Jalandhar constabulary against Pargat Singh and Sukhpal Khaira” a blatant maltreatment of State powerfulness and a shameful effort to divert attraction from a superior issue.
"AAP Punjab enactment has chosen the cowardly way of intimidation and governmental vendetta. Under Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, the Punjab Police is being misused to harass the absorption lawmakers alternatively than being deployed to reconstruct instrumentality and bid successful the state,” Mr. Bajwa said successful a precocious evening X post.
“Let it beryllium made perfectly clear: intimidation volition not interruption our resolve,” helium added. Notably, the Jalandhar Police Commissionerate connected Friday filed an FIR successful transportation with uploading and circulating an “edited” and “doctored” video of AAP MLA Atishi successful the Delhi Assembly.
Using the clip, Delhi BJP leaders, including Law Minister Kapil Mishra, alleged connected Tuesday that Ms. Atishi insulted Guru Tegh Bahadur successful the Assembly during a statement connected a programme organised by the Delhi authorities to people the 350th martyrdom time of the ninth Sikh Guru past November.
An authoritative connection quoting a spokesperson of the Jalandhar Police Commissionerate said that an FIR nether applicable provisions of instrumentality has been registered connected the ailment of 1 Iqbal Singh against “uploading and circulating an edited and doctored video of Atishi”, the Leader of Opposition successful the Delhi Assembly.
“Several societal media posts containing a abbreviated video clip showing Ms. Atishi allegedly making derogatory and blasphemous remarks against [Sikh] Gurus with highly inflammatory captions person been uploaded connected societal media platforms,” the spokesperson said.
“Investigations person been conducted scientifically, and the video clip containing Ms. Atishi's audio has been downloaded from a societal media level of Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra, which has been forwarded to the manager of the forensic subject laboratory successful SAS Nagar, Punjab, for examination,” helium added.
Taking to X, Mr. Khaira said, "Most shocking and blatant lawsuit of utmost governmental vendetta unleashed upon absorption leaders of Punjab by Bhagwant Mann and his DGP, Punjab Police, by registering an utterly mendacious FIR against me, MLA Pargat Singh, and others for sharing a video of Ms. Atishi for her derogatory remarks against Guru Teg Bahadur Ji successful the Delhi Vidhan Sabha recently."
“The governmental coercion of Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party stands severely exposed arsenic the talker of Delhi Vidhan Sabha has issued a privilege announcement to Jalandhar constabulary commissioner for registering the FIR connected the spot (video) of Delhi Vidhan Sabha proceedings,” helium added.
“This bogus FIR against america has vindicated our often-repeated allegations that Punjab has been turned into a constabulary authorities by Bhagwant Mann to terrorise, intimidate and endanger its opponents,” Mr. Khaira claimed.
The Delhi Assembly has taken cognisance of the Jalandhar police’s FIR and said strict enactment volition beryllium taken against the Jalandhar Police Commissioner.
“This [the FIR and usage of the clip] amounts to a breach of privilege, and strict enactment volition beryllium taken against the Jalandhar Police Commissioner, due to the fact that the video clip is simply a spot of the Delhi Assembly. We are taking cognisance of this matter,” Speaker Vijender Gupta said.
Ms. Atishi, connected her part, has accused the BJP of indulging successful petty authorities by dragging the sanction of the ninth Sikh guru.
In a video station connected X, Ms. Atishi claimed that she was talking astir the BJP moving distant from a treatment connected contamination and astir their protestation successful the Assembly connected the contented of stray dogs.
But the BJP deliberately added a mendacious subtitle and inserted the sanction of Guru Tegh Bahadur into it, she claimed, referring to the clip.
The erstwhile Delhi Chief Minister besides said that she belongs to a household successful which, for generations, the eldest lad adopted Sikhism. She would alternatively dice than insult the Guru Sahib, Ms. Atishi said.
