Khalsa Aid chief Ravi Singh’s Twitter account has been banned in India.
Khalsa Aid founder Ravi Singh’s Twitter account has been banned in India. Ravi Singh shared a picture of the account on Facebook and wrote, “My Twitter account has been banned in India! This is the real face of democracy under the BJP!! Banning Sikh social media accounts won’t stop us raising our voices! We will only get louder!”
Meanwhile, Ravi Singh’s account on Twitter says, “Ravi Singh’s account has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand.”
Khalsa Aid is a United Kingdom-based non-governmental organisation which was among the major organisations that provided logistical support to the farmers’ protest led by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) in 2020. It helped bring attention to the movement outside India. Its volunteers helped arrange food and other essential items for the farmers.
In 2021, Khalsa Aid was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for its humanitarian work done across the globe. The Nobel nomination was made by Canadian politicians in public office, Tim Uppal, Patrick Brown and Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria.
Apart from the farmers’ protest in India, the organisation made a name for itself through relief work in war-affected Syria, in the 2016 London floods and by setting up refugee camps for Rohingyas on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.