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Punjabi singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh briefly halted his concert in Calgary, Canada, during his ongoing Aura Tour after noticing some audience members waving pro-Khalistan flags, videos of which have surfaced online.Addressing the situation mid-performance, Diljit Dosanjh reportedly responded to criticism from sections of the Punjabi community and the controversy surrounding his appearance on Kaun Banega Crorepati last year.In the videos circulating online the singer-actor can be heard saying, \u201cMy job is not to do charity. But whichever platform I go on, I always talk about Punjab. We often say the national media doesn\u2019t talk about Punjab enough. I went everywhere, including on that channel (Kaun Banega Crorepati) for the sake of Punjab. I put forth Punjab\u2019s issues there. I\u2019ve even donated generously to my state whenever needed.\u201d In 2025, the singer had appeared on the show and donated his earnings towards Punjab flood relief. <\/p>\n
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Diljit Dosanjh Confronts Khalistan Supporters at Calgary Concert, Explains KBC AppearanceHe added, \u201cWe can give the money, we are giving it to the people. But they had made a donation, people from all over India can donate. To help the poor. That\u2019s why I went there,\u201d explaining his appearance on Kaun Banega Crorepati. \u201cIf you still have an issue that I sat across someone on television\u2026jinne jhande dikhane dilkhai challo (then keep waving how many flags you want to).\u201dReferring to his international appearances, Dosanjh added, \u201cI even went on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to talk about Punjab and the Guru Nanak Jahaz incident. I didn\u2019t go there to promote any film or song. I went there to bring Punjab and its issues to light so the national media would cover them.”Speaking on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last week, Dosanjh also recalled the Komagata Maru incident while reflecting on the love he has received. The ship carried 376 passengers from Punjab, of whom only 24 were allowed entry into Canada. \u201cIn 1914, when our people came to Canada for the first time, they didn\u2019t allow us in. That stadium is just two kilometers away from that port. That\u2019s a big thing for us, 55,000 people in the stadium. They didn\u2019t allow us to come, but now we\u2019re here,\u201d he said.Earlier in October last year, pro-Khalistan group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) had announced plans to \u201cshut down\u201d Punjabi singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh\u2019s concert in Australia on November 1, coinciding with Sikh Genocide Remembrance Day observed by the Akal Takht Sahib.The move came days after Dosanjh was seen touching the feet of Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, which the group criticised. In a statement, SFJ general counsel Gurpatwant Singh Pannun said the gesture had \u201cinsulted every victim, widow and orphan of the 1984 Sikh Genocide\u201d.The organisation alleged that Bachchan, on October 31, 1984, had \u201cpublicly incited Hindustani mobs\u201d with the slogan \u201cKhoon Ka Badla Khoon\u201d \u2014 \u201cBlood for Blood\u201d \u2014 linking it to the anti-Sikh violence that followed, in which more than 30,000 Sikhs were killed across India.Calling the scheduled concert a \u201cmockery of remembrance\u201d, SFJ urged Sikh groups and artists worldwide to boycott the event. It also said it would organise a Panthic Shutdown Rally outside the venue on November 1 and had written to Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Kuldeep Singh Gargaj, seeking that Dosanjh be summoned to explain his actions.<\/p>\n
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The Akal Takht, regarded as the highest temporal authority in Sikhism, had in 2010 formally declared the 1984 killings as a \u201cgenocide\u201d and designated November 1 as Sikh Genocide Remembrance Day.\u201cRemembrance is not for sale, and genocide cannot be normalized for applause,\u201d SFJ said in its statement, accusing Dosanjh of commercialising a month of mourning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: Instagram\/_ikswaal Punjabi singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh briefly halted his concert in Calgary, Canada, during his ongoing Aura…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13847,13846,214,13845,17,13567,13732,928,13729,13730,13844,13731],"class_list":{"0":"post-29963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-1984-sikh-genocide","9":"tag-aura-tour-canada","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-calgary-concert","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-diljit-dosanjh-concert","14":"tag-google-news","15":"tag-india","16":"tag-india-news","17":"tag-india-news-today","18":"tag-pro-khalistan-flags","19":"tag-today-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}