Remove SFJ’s anti-India app, govt tells Google

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 8

An anti-India app launched by the Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) on Google platform has attracted a strong objection from Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh.

Reacting to the launch of the app, the CM on Friday directed officers to take up the matter with Google, even as he urged the Centre to direct the company to take down the controversial app immediately.

Acting on the CM’s directives, DGP Dinkar Gupta is also coordinating with the Central security agencies to tackle the threat triggered by the launch of the ‘2020 Sikh Referendum’ app, just ahead of the opening of the Kartarpur corridor.

The app, freely available for download on Google Play, is clearly aimed at pushing the ISI agenda of dividing the Sikh community amid the 550th Parkash Purb celebrations of Guru Nanak, said the CM, demanding that the app be immediately taken off.

The Chief Minister said the development raises serious concerns about the security threat to Punjab specifically, and to India as a whole. The timing of its launch indicated a patently sinister agenda by the ISI to leverage the opportunity created by the corridor to divide the Sikh community, said Captain Amarinder.

Pointing out that the SFJ, under whose guise the ISI has been pushing ‘Referendum 2020’, had been declared as an unlawful association under UAPA by the Central government some months ago, the CM said the organisation’s brazen involvement in violent acts had prompted the action against it.