Canadian Khalistani outfit behind toolkit on farmers protests shared by Greta, says Delhi Police

A preliminary investigation into the PowerPoint 'toolkit' shared by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg suggests that it was put together by a pro-Khalistan organisation in Canada. The toolkit was prepared by 'Poetic Justice Foundation', a pro-Khalistani outfit co-founded by Mo Dhaliwal, according to Delhi Police.

Delhi Police filed an FIR in connection with this toolkit shared by Thunberg which contained information on how to support farmers' protests at Delhi borders. Praveer Ranjan, Special Commissioner of Delhi Police said, "We haven't named anybody in the FIR, its only against the creators of toolkit which is a matter of investigation and Delhi Police will be investigating that case."

This PowerPoint presentation detailed a lowdown of tasks aimed at India. Some points in the toolkit talked about organising on-ground action in front of the nearest Indian embassies while others talked about "unified global disruption in the diaspora on January 26" and "repeal of farm laws". The post was later deleted by Thunberg but not before its screenshots went viral on social media.

How government officials reacted to this toolkit?

Union Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways General (Dr.) VK Singh wrote in a Facebook post, "The deleted post of Greta Thunberg has revealed the real designs of a conspiracy at an international level against India. Need to investigate the parties which are pulling the strings of this evil machinery. Instructions were laid out clearly as to the 'how', 'when' and 'what'. Conspiracies at this scale often get exposed and ultimately it took the hasty tweet of Greta, who with other international celebrities suddenly turned sensitive towards farmers' issues."

A senior government official stated, "The documents shared mistakenly by Greta shows how tweets by Rihanna and others weren't organic and were part of a larger campaign to malign India. This makes it important to see all such statements/tweets by important people in India and abroad in the context of the planned and pre-scripted campaign."

All about the toolkit that Greta Thunberg shared

 "Here's an updated toolkit by people on the ground in India if you want to help. (They removed their previous documents as it was outdated) #StandWithFarmers #FarmersProtest," Thunberg tweeted.

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