Rapper Hard Kaur supports Khalistan campaign run by banned SFJ

CHANDIGARH: Less than a month after being booked for sedition for alleged “objectionable” posts on UP CM Yogi Adityanath and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, UK-based rapper Taran Kaur Dhillon widely known as Hard Kaur has posted several videos on Instagram supporting the secessionist “Referendum 2020” campaign being run by the Sikhs for Justice (SFJ).

Rapper Hard Kaur. Photo courtesy her Instagram

Tribune Web Desk
Chandigarh, July 18

Less than a month after being booked for sedition for alleged “objectionable” posts on UP CM Yogi Adityanath and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, UK-based rapper Taran Kaur Dhillon widely known as Hard Kaur has posted several videos on Instagram supporting the secessionist “Referendum 2020” campaign being run by the Sikhs for Justice (SFJ).

SFJ was banned last week by the Central government for its anti-national activities.

In the videos posted on social media, she is seen appealing to the people to vote for Khalistan and asking them not to be “fooled” by those who oppose Khalistan.

In another video, she is seen wearing a “Punjab Referendum 2020 Khalistan” T-shirt and grooving to a song sung by traditional Sikh singer Tarsem Singh Moranwali in praise of slain militant leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

The rapper also tagged Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal in her posts and used derogatory language against the CM.

Last month, on the basis of a complaint by Varanasi-based lawyer Shashank Shekhar, who is also an RSS volunteer, a case was registered against her under Sections 124A (sedition), 153 A (promoting enmity between different groups of religion), 500 (defamation) and 505 (statement conducing to public mischief) of the IPC and Section 66 of the IT Act.

Kaur’s Facebook and Instagram pages had seemingly objectionable comments against Bhagwat as she blamed the RSS for Hemant Karkarey’s murder and held Yogi responsible for the spate of rapes.

According to Shekhar, he was deeply hurt to see such derogatory remarks against Bhagwat and Yogi on the social media account.

Hard Kaur is a Punjab rapper based in the UK whose first solo album was ‘Supawoman’ and second was titled ‘Party Loud All Year: P.L.A.Y. ‘

She had also got into trouble in May 2013 when she had allegedly hurt Sikh sentiments while performing alongside Honey Singh.