United States-based businessman Darshan Singh Dhaliwal on Friday said that Indian immigration officials have told him to stop organising l...
United States-based businessman Darshan Singh Dhaliwal on Friday said that Indian immigration officials have told him to stop organising langars for farmers protesting against the agriculture reforms if he wanted to enter the country, reported The Wire.
Dhaliwal, who is a US national and a Person of Indian Origin, was barred from entering India when he arrived in Delhi on night of October 23-24.
The businessman told The Wire that he had come to India in January, April and October, since he started organising langar, or a community kitchen, for the agitating farmers at the Singhu border.
“Whenever I came to India, the immigration officials would ask me why I was supporting the farmers’ protest and who was funding the langar,” he said. “I took these queries lightly and never shared anything with my family, considering it to be routine questioning by airport staff.”
But when he arrived at the Delhi airport in October, Dhaliwal was made to wait for more than two hours before being told to return to the US.
“When I asked why I was being denied permission to enter India, the immigration officials asked the same questions that they had been asking earlier too – why I organised the langar at Singhu border and who is paying for it” he told...
