A social research teacher-turned-public relations officer, now an advisor to Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, has angered the social gathering and Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh together with his social media posts and statements on Kashmir and the Taliban.
The chief minister has hit out at 63-year-old Malvinder Singh Mali, who was appointed advisor to the PPCC chief two weeks in the past, and Dr Pyare Lal Garg, one other advisor to Sidhu, who requested him on Sunday to limit himself from doing his job. was requested to .
On Monday, Anandpur Sahib MP Manish Tewari tweeted, asking Congress basic secretary in-charge of Punjab Harish Rawat to heed the views of the advisors.
“I urge @harishrawatcmuk AICC General Secretary I/C Punjab to seriously introspect that those who do not consider J&K a part of India and others who have pro-Pakistan leanings should be part of @INCPunjab . It mocks all those who shed blood for India,” Tiwari, who is taken into account near the chief minister, posted.
In a tv interview, Mali had stated, “Kashmir was a separate country, belonged to Kashmiris, and was illegally occupied by India and Pakistan.”
In one other interview, he had stated that Amarinder could be completely satisfied to see SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal as the subsequent chief minister as an alternative of Sidhu.
Mali’s social media profile image is the duvet of a Punjabi journal, Janta Paigum, which he as soon as edited, includes a sketch of Indira Gandhi with a cranium, and calls her “jabar” (sufferer), Mali stated in June. Posted this image, and didn’t take away it even after being appointed advisor to Kiya Sidhu.
In a current Facebook put up, Mali appeared to help the Taliban in opposition to the United States.
Mali started his political journey in school as a scholar chief, and was the state basic secretary of the Punjab Students’ Union within the Eighties. In 1993, Mali was booked by the Punjab Police beneath the National Security Act (NSA) and the now repealed Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) for his “inflammatory” writings. After a month and a half, he was launched on the orders of the High Court.
Mali, who retired in 2016 as a trainer at a authorities college in Ropar, Punjab, was a public relations officer with each Amarinder and former CM Parkash Singh Badal throughout his tenure as CM from 2002 to 2007.
He has been controversial for a very long time – again to his mum or dad division of training after an argument with former public relations minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan, and a feud with training minister Sikandar Singh Maluka throughout the SAD-BJP authorities in 2007–2012. was achieved.
Before being employed as a schoolteacher, Mali was the press secretary of the late Akali chief Gurcharan Singh Tohra.
Hailing from Sakrodi village close to Bhawanigarh in Sangrur district, Mali studied journalism from Punjabi University Patiala and labored in a number of Punjabi newspapers. He additionally studied in Moga and Bathinda, and was seen as a sympathizer of extremism within the days of terrorism in Punjab.
Mali’s affiliation with Sidhu started on the wedding ceremony of Sidhu’s aide and MLA Pargat Singh’s son in Chandigarh in February this yr. A supply near what occurred within the assembly stated, “Sidhhu had sufficient time to spend on social media after resigning from the cupboard. He noticed Mali, who was actively supporting the farmers’ protest and criticizing the Punjab authorities. He additionally strongly supported Sidhu on different points together with Kartarpur Corridor, sand mafia, land mafia. Sidhu was so impressed with Mali that when he met her on the wedding ceremony, he touched Mali’s ft and requested his spouse Dr. Navjot Kaur Sidhu to do the identical, saying that Mali was doing an incredible job to avoid wasting Punjab. .
Another supply stated that after turning into the PPCC chief, Sidhu went to the gardener’s home twice and sought recommendation from the gardener. “First he went to the gardener’s house in Chandigarh and later to his ancestral home in Patiala, where he saw the ailing mother of the gardener. The announcement about the advisor came after the son,” stated the supply.
On Sunday, Sidhu held a six-hour assembly with each Mali and Garg at his Patiala residence. Later, Mali wrote on Facebook that the assembly was “99.99 percent about Punjab issues, communal harmony, farmers’ protests, paucity of funds and fighting forces trying to implement Modi’s agenda in Punjab.”
Mali later claimed that he was taken out of context by TV channels. “My views are expressed on my social media. I was responsible for. I am not responsible for how TV channels quote me. They show distorted clips of my interview,” he instructed reporters.
BJP chief Sambit Patra tweeted quotes from Mali and Garg and requested, “Rahul Gandhi any answer?” Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has shared an previous video of Sidhu praising Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and stated that it was from right here that Sidhu’s advisors took inspiration.
Writing on Facebook after being criticized by the chief minister, Mali stated the Constitution has given everybody the correct to freedom of expression. He requested the CM why the state of affairs in Punjab has turn out to be such that farmers are committing suicide and each part of the society is protesting.
Rawat instructed ANI in Dehradun that motion could be taken in opposition to anybody who insults Indira Gandhi. “She was one of the most popular leaders and was like a mother to us. If something derogatory was said about him… and if it is proved… then action will be taken,” he was quoted as saying.
Rawat additionally stated that the Congress strictly maintains that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral a part of India. “No one has the right to doubt that position, let alone issue a statement,” Rawat stated.
Sources near Sidhu stated he had instructed the social gathering management that his advisors weren’t on him or the social gathering’s payroll, and had been entitled to their opinion.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
