Amritpal Singh has been on the run for nearly two weeks, vexing tens of thousands of police looking for him, but also enthralling a nation watching the hunt on television. In his latest video, Singh, a preacher calling for a Sikh homeland called Khalistan, says he’ll surrender at a time of his own choosing. Raksha Kumar reports on who is backing this once-little-known preacher and why.
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