CHANDIGARH, Punjab—Several Sikh leaders, including Bhai Mohkam Singh (President, United Akali Dal), Bhai Gurdeep Singh Bathinda (General Secretary, United Akali Dal) and Bhai Jaskaran Singh Kahan Singh Wala (Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar) met with Punjab Director General of Police Suresh Arora on September 24 seeking transfer of Jathedar Jagtar Singh Hawara to Punjab.
Political Sikh prisoner Jathedar Jagtar Singh Hawara, who is currently languishing in Tihar Jail, was appointed as the Jathedar of Sri Akal Takht Sahib by the Sarbat Khalsa 2015 gathering held at village Chabba situated on the outskirts of Amritsar.
After speaking with DGP Arora, these leaders held a press conference in Chandigarh the next day.
UAD’s President Bhai Mohkam Singh informed that they have asked the DGP to facilitate transfer of Jathedar Hawara to Punjab as there was no case pending against him in Delhi.
“We ensured DGP Arora that Sarbat Khalsa 2016 will be a peaceful congregation of the Sikhs at Talwandi Sabo and the Police should refrain from acting against Panthik activists under political pressure,” Bhai Mohkam Singh told the press.
The leaders also apprised the DGP with inhuman torture committed by the Punjab police on three innocent Sikhs Chamkaur Singh, Jaswinder Singh and Gurmukh Singh to pressurize them for false witness in a desecration case. They also urged him to save life of 84 years old fasting Sikh activist Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa who has been struggling for the release of political Sikh prisoners.
The leaders informed in the press conference that all the rights pertaining to the Sikh congregation to be called at Talwandi Sabo on November 10, 2016 have been given to Akal Takht Jathedar Jagtar Singh Hawara. Separating the Sarbat Khalsa 2016 from forthcoming assembly polls, the leaders said that the Sikh congregation will be called to deliberate upon the challenges in front of Sikh community and the strategies to unite Sikhs on a common platform.
Because. might is right.
‘Because might is right’ – all evil men think that, the Moghuls, the British and now you and your RSS compatriots. Mahatma Gandhi said ‘Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always.’ For a Sikh of course ‘right is right’ and we have Waheguru on our side – that perhaps explains why the Moghuls and the Britishers no longer have any sway over us.
Lobby with police,politicians, law makers and judges to get what you want.
The last time Sikhs ‘lobbied’ their police about beadbi they were shot dead and the politicians offered their grieving families blood / hush money jobs not to make a fuss. A Judge Justice Katju found the police culpable of murder and was then promptly ignored by the law makers. And why should you have to lobby for your human rights and civil liberties in a modern democracy?