Tobacco consumption to be curbed in Amritsar

AMRITSAR SAHIB— Consumption of tobacco in the holy town of Sikhs may lead to paying of penalty on the spot with the district administration planning measures to curb the practice from August 15.

Chewing tobacco and spitting on walls may soon be a thing of the past in Punjab with the state government declaring Amritsar and Rupnagar (Ropar) as ‘tobacco-free districts’ from August 15, Amritsar-based Chief Parliamentary Secretary Navjot Kaur Sidhu said here on Wednesday.

There is already a ban on smoking in public places in the city and Executive Magistrates have been deputed to nab those violating the order, officials said.

The district administration in the last one week collected a fine of Rs 36,830 from over 240 people who were smoking in public place, they said.

Akal Takht (highest Sikh temporal seat) head Gurbachan Singh has already signed a pledge to save Punjab from the menace of tobacco and has written to Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandakh Committee (SGPC) directing it to communicate with Punjab Government regarding ban on sale of ‘Gutka’ in Punjab.

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  1. Problem Statement:
    Sikh Leadership in Punjab

    Issue:
    Political parties throughout the world have used the same methodologies, tools, resources and tactics to stear and influence people to vote and then used the “timeperiod” to exploit whatever they can polictically to achieve financial and power gains for future. Religion is always used to create buckets of vote banks like sikhs, non-sikhs, punjabi’s , non-punjabi’s, dere, non dere, radha awami (beas), radha swami (delhi), ram-rahim, sucha swada, more in the list to join as long as we keep what we are doing which is “nothing”.

    It should not take too many brain cells to understand that the there is something really missing and wrong. Badal needs support from all above (radha awami, ram rahim to caputure more votes in his buckets) + add BJP (dealing with punjabi’s etc) to add more tokens. Amrinder need to use Bhatal (never understood why) – both to get more tokens to the buckets.

    BJP is on its way to clearly prune sikhs out of sikhism by introducing and suppoting “Dasam Granth” in parallel to “Guru Granth Sahib” so as to create more confusion over already confused sikh (ex. sikh getting to dera, radha swami and others is for a simple logic). Its say “if you cannot convince somebody, confuse somebody”. Ram rahim, radha swami, others socalled “left behind” will ultimately join BJP in few years ..may be 10-15 years or sooner …

    Many more thoughs ….but the message here is clear ..we need a SIKH leadership driven by the religion (like muslims) so that there are no grey lines …these grey lines act as opportunities for political to play. Once done, we should target on a conversions process to bring people back into sikh religion and work with them who cannot or will not come back – “Guru Arjun Dev Ji’s Guldasta Concept” and then lead them instead of following.

    Creating an independent state is not a viable solution and would not solve anything …besided having one more influencial people with the crown …issue is the missing leader, once we have one we can have the punjab all of us want …can u imagine what we would do with a country president like amrinder or badal …??

    Any ideas ..what i am talking about ???

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