Overview
- A group linked to Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki confronted a Tauranga Nagar Kirtan by performing a haka and displaying a banner reading 'This is New Zealand not India'.
- The Tauranga episode marked the second disruption of a Sikh religious procession in New Zealand in about three weeks after a confrontation in Auckland.
- Police had increased security for the procession, and coordination with volunteers kept the event from escalating into major incidents.
- Tamaki shared video of the confrontation with captions declaring 'Whose streets? Kiwi streets' and describing the action as 'peaceful defiance' by 'True Patriots'.
- SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami condemned the disruptions, and Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal urged India’s foreign minister to raise the matter with New Zealand.