Jalandhar: Re-asserting that freedom is inalienable right of every nationality, the Dal Khalsa accused Indian leadership for turning blind eye on all written and verbal promises they made during partition with Sikhs while luring them to join the Indian Union. When UK allowed referendum in Scotland and Canada in Quebec twice, the New Delhi must explain why it was running away to allow the same in Kashmir and Punjab. The resolution to this effect was passed in a conference organized by the hardliner group Dal Khalsa here on the eve of India’s 70th I-day.
Jalandhar: Re-asserting that freedom is inalienable right of every nationality, the Dal Khalsa accused Indian leadership for turning blind eye on all written and verbal promises they made during partition with Sikhs while luring them to join the Indian Union. When UK allowed referendum in Scotland and Canada in Quebec twice, the New Delhi must explain why it was running away to allow the same in Kashmir and Punjab. The resolution to this effect was passed in a conference organized by the hardliner group Dal Khalsa here on the eve of India’s 70th I-day.
It further reads : Conscious of the prevailing world order, Dal Khalsa believes that the people of Punjab and Kashmir be allowed to express their free will through exercising the right to self-determination under the aegis of the United Nations. The organization gave the call for observing Aug 15 as black day. The gathering at gurdwara Guru Nanak Mission took serious note of misuse of archaic sedition laws, denial of the right to self determination to ethnic minorities, lynching of Dalits and Muslims by cow-vigilantes and imposing pseudo-nationalism on minorities.
Taking a dig at the Sangh Parivar, the speakers were of the view that Sangis on the pretext of protecting the animal were using it as an electoral milch cow. Even the Congress is soft-peddling Hindutva. They asked why cow slaughter ban in India and why not a man slaughter ban referring to slaughtering of Dalits, Sikhs, Christians and Muslims by frenzied communal mobs with the logistics support from mainstream parties and the establishment in different parts at different times.
We continue to raise the issue of self-determination despite a conspiracy of silence in the Indian sub-continent, said party spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh. Whatever may the present posture of the Sikhs and that of their political leadership in Punjab, the undercurrent of dissatisfaction and dismay at the treatment of the Sikhs in India is evident. Rejecting the forceful imposition of ‘Jana Gan Man’ by courts and executive on people under the garb of nationalism, Party leader H S Dhami was categorical that these verses do not represent the independent stature of the Sikh community.
He condemned the Modi dispensation for targeting Kashmiri nationalist leader S A Geelani. "His family members and party colleagues are being hounded up to break his resolve, which till date is unshakeable".
