Overview

• Gunther Fehlinger, an Austrian economist, urged the “dismantling” of India into “Ex‑India” and voiced support for the Khalistan cause in posts on X.
• He circulated a map that labeled Punjab, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan as part of “Khalistan” and showed Jammu and Kashmir as belonging to Pakistan, with other areas assigned to Nepal and Bangladesh.
• His X account was withheld in India after screenshots of the posts spread widely online.
• Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi called the remarks “insanity” and urged India’s Ministry of External Affairs to take up the matter with the Austrian Embassy.
• Fehlinger, who claims to run a NATO “Enlargement Committee,” has a record of advocating NATO/EU expansion and proposing the fragmentation of adversary states, and he labeled Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “Russian man.”