BADAL DEFEATS SARNA IN DELHI GURDWARA PRABANDHAKCOMMITTEEVOTE
BOTH AKALIS, CONGRESS CONTROLLED BY INDIAN GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 30, 2013 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) easily won the elections for the Delhi Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (DGPC), solidly defeating the Congress party under the leadership of Paramjit Singh Sarna.
The Akali Dal is in alliance with the fundamentalist Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the political arm of the militant, pro-Fascist Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), which promotes an ideology of Hindutva.
Neither Congress nor the Akalis stands for the interests of the Sikh Nation. Both are under the control of the Indian regime. They are merely different wings of the same repressive regime.
The DGPC received about Rs130 crore in annual income. (One crore equals ten million.) Many who support the Akali Dal believe they are supporting the old Akali Dal, who were stalwarts for the Sikh Nation. But the current Akali Dal under Badal is not living up to the Akali name. We expect Akalis to stand for Sikh freedom, yet Badal openly opposes it.
Mr. Sarna, as who is associated with the Congress Party, also opposes it . It was the Congress Party that attacked the Sikh religion’s most sacred shrine, Darbar Sahib. According to Chakravyuh: Web of Indian Secularism, Mr. Badal was one of those (along with Harchand Singh Longowal) who invited them to do so. Bibi Preneet Kaur, wife of Punjab Congress Party leader Captain Amarinder Singh and the current Minister of State for External Affairs, told Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to keep an eye on Canadian Sikhs who advocate Khalistan. Prime Minister Harper replied that Canadians have freedom of speech and they are free to advocate anything they like.
Chief Minister Badal has said to pay attention to the development in Punjab. Punjab’s economy has declined from sixth in India to twelfth. Agriculture is essential to Punjab’s economy. About 76 percent of the people depend on it. Yet farmers in Punjab are forced to buy supplies at inordinately high prices and sell their products at prices below the cost of production. They are unable to make a living. Many are committing suicide. The Badal government does nothing to stop this. What kind of development is that?
The tyranny and violence against the Sikhs have been going on for many years. After 1984, it was the police who were committing genocide against the Sikh Nation. Now it is Badal’s goons. A report issued by the Movement Against State Repression (MASR) quotes the Punjab Civil Magistracy as writing “if we add up the figures of the last few years the number of innocent persons killed would run into lakhs [hundreds of thousands.]” According to Sardar Mann, the Indian government has murdered over a million Sikhs since 1982. Sardar Inderjit Singh Jaijee, author of The Politics of Genocide, and Bibi Baljit Kaur of the Movement Against State Repression (MASR) told Dr. Aulakh that if it were not for the efforts of the Council of Khalistan, that number might be ten times as high. India has also killed more than 300,000 Christians in Nagaland, over 100,000 Muslims in Kashmir, and tens of thousands of Tamils, Assamese, Bodos, Manipuris, and others. In 2012 alone, there were 131 reported violent incidents against Christians in India. The Indian Supreme Court called the Indian government's murders of Sikhs "worse than a genocide.”
“We need a free Khalistan,” said Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President of the Council of Khalistan. “That is the only way to stop the violence and corruption. Neither the Akalis nor Congress has the interests of the Sikh Nation at heart. We need leadership in Punjab that is committed freeing Khalistan. As Professor Darshan Singh said, ‘If a Sikh is not a Khalistani, he is not a Sikh’,” Dr. Aulakh noted. “The Sikh Nation must reclaim our birthright.”
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Parmjit Singh Sekhon