TALWANDI SABO, Punjab—The organizers of Sarbat Khalsa 2016 have begun preparations to successfully conduct the event scheduled to be held in two days, on December 8. The Sikh farmers of village Bhagivandar have provided their agricultural land on Bhagivandar-Bathinda main road for organizing the panthik gathering.
A team of 50 Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) members reached the site of the Sarbat Khalsa (Sikh Congregation) on December 2 to check arrangements there.
The district police of Bathinda became immediately active and the DSP Mohri Lal & SHO Jagdish Singh reached there along with a ‘Rapid Action Force’ team of CRPF (Civil Range Police Force) to displace the team. Following a heated exchange, the District Administration finally succeeded in convincing the Sikh activists to leave the venue.
Meanwhile, the Punjab government has beefed up security in Talwandi Sabo and may once again attempt to sabotage the event. The so-called  ‘Rapid Action Force’ team of the CRPF has been brought in Talwandi Sabo besides three existing companies of ordinary CRPF cops. It is being speculated that the Punjab government may call additional paramilitary forces troops to bar the entry of Sikh activists at the prescribed venue of Sarbat Khalsa at Talwandi Sabo. Â
It is pertinent to note here that the organizers are currently waiting for the decision of a High Court petition, moved by Advocate Simranjit Singh. The hearing on the petition is due today.
Oh have you stopped the Sarbat Khalsa or your buddies badals and modi alike? No it is going ahead today…… are you gritting your teeth now….
How about you stopping Kumbh Mela the next time whenever it comes around – Ask you leader Modi see how he feels about this? Whilst you are at it Stop Diwali as well and other hundred and thousands of Hindu events. You talk a load of nonsense without thinking.
All religious gathering should be stopped in India,
Indian state should be neutral to RELIGION.
All religious gathering should be stopped in India. SO now you don’t want Sikhs to celebrate Band Chor Diwas, Gurpurbs and Vaisakhi either as well as the Sarbat Khalsa? You should have said this before the Sikhs agreed to be part of India as we cannot give up Waheguru for you.
No religion in India should be allowed to create a law and order problem.
India is a secular Nation where every one is equal.
If India is secular nation where everyone is equal why do you want to ban SIkhs from holding their Sarbat Khalsa but staunchly defend Hindus into holding their Kumbh Mela which causes far more law and order problems, certainly more deaths, more pollution, more crime, more public health issues and provides a breeding ground for radical extremist groups to both espouse communal hatred and recruit? The Sikh nation was induced and guaranteed its religious rights and freedom to practice its religious rights at the inception of Inida – we would not have joined India had we been told you have to compromise your faith just as that Sikh in Haryana was told to last week in order to sit an examination.
This is outrageous and anti-Sikh anti human…..
Bhai Ji M Singh Hindu gathering Kumbh Mela alike are fine but Sikhs cannot gather together and the Police, come army are deployed to shoot and kill.
There is no Justice – there is no justice of Sikhs.
What is wrong with Friday prayers in Kashmir – are you saying that any religion except Hinduvata is not acceptable in India because that is what it is now.
It is turning out to be like the Friday prayers in Kashmir..
Where after an religious gathering a law and order needs to be maintained.
You want to now ban Muslim conducting Friday prayers? You reveal yourself too well, RSS Harinder. If you want law and order to be maintained at religious gathering please ban the Kumbh mela as that has a history of violence (attendees being killed in either clashes or stampedes) and costs crores to police and creates tremendous pollution to the environment as well as acts as a breeding ground for fanatical extremist religious organisations holding meetings looking for recruits.
As long as there is no law and order problem people can have there religious gatherings.
Who gets to decide when it becomes ‘a law and order problem’ and not simply the exercising of democratic rights (freedom of association, freedom of speech, freedom of religion). The same police who shot dead two Sikhs in the street last year for peacefully protesting the beadbi of our Guru Granth Sahib. The politicians who told mobs to go out and murder Sikhs off trains and drag from their own homes? The judiciary who don’t even want to hear the eyewitness whistleblowing testimony of ex-policemen and murderers of Sikhs like Gurmeet Pinky? The media who portray Sikhs alternately as Santo Banto comedic figures of fun or as ‘hardliners’, ‘militants’, ‘orthodox, ‘ ‘radicals’, ‘extremists’, ‘terrorists’? The army who does not want Sikh regiments on display on national parade day but are happy to send tanks into the Darbar Sahib? Maybe the ordinary Indian in the street like yourself who has swallowed three decades of a perverted narrative that says Sikhs are rebels and must be subjected to brutal violence in order to keep them under control? There is no law and order problem. There is only the problem of not accepting that democracy means having to let others dissent with the status quo that keeps you on top of everyone else. Respect for civil liberties and human rights is what you need not force.
They all hate us .Old saying no body kicks a dead DOG.
We need to enjoy life on this planet by not wearing the Crown.
Any one injuring an Indian , Property of India or Indian should be regarded as creating a Law and order problem for India.
1) The judiciary who don’t even want to hear the eyewitness whistleblowing testimony of ex-policemen and murderers of Sikhs like Gurmeet Pinky? :– Naturally how can the guilty be asked to punish it self.
2) The media who portray Sikhs alternately as Santo Banto comedic figures of fun or as ‘hardliners’, ‘militants’, ‘orthodox, ‘ ‘radicals’, ‘extremists’, ‘terrorists’? :—They want us to believe the thing we are not.Not even worthy of bothering about.
3) The army who does not want Sikh regiments on display on national parade day but are happy to send tanks into the Darbar Sahib? :– How does it matter if we are on Republic day parade or not . Army will roll in when ever and where ever there is an armed rebellion in any part of planet earth.
‘They all hate us .Old saying no body kicks a dead DOG. We need to enjoy life on this planet by not wearing the Crown.’ I know you like to think otherwise but Sikhs are lions not dogs. Your idea that we should just lie still and pretend to be dead so people stop abusing us is a Hindu notion used during the Moghul and Britisher era and utterly alien to the Sikh ethos which demands dignity and honour of its adherents. As for not wearing a crown I take that is an allusion to the distinctive dastaar the Sikhs proudly wear which you also wish us to dispense with so we can better hide amongst the population? I am afraid again we cannot ignore the order of Guru Gobind Singh Ji who placed that very crown on the head of every one of his Sikhs by instructing us to stand out so that we might better stand up.
‘Any one injuring an Indian , Property of India or Indian should be regarded as creating a Law and order problem for India.’ So that means the Indian Army, Punjab Police, the Indian polity, media, religious extremist groups like the Hinduvta taliban (RSS, Shiv Sena et al) as well as genocide apologists and deniers.
Harinder December 8, 2016 at 7:10 am
1) It is the sole function of the judiciary to impartially dispense justice. If the Indian judiciary cannot or will not do this in regards to extra judicial murder carried out by law enforcers such as the police as you suggest then why do you insist that the law should be obeyed?
2) The media create a dangerous stereotype in the mind of the ordinary Indian as to what a Sikh is. They have already tried to establish the idea that a Sikh who dares to bear the five kakkars denoting that he has been baptise dinto Sikh faith is somehow a deviant Sikh, an orthodox militant. The Nazi’s used similar caricaturing of Jews in the 1930s in order to make it easier for ordinary Germans to turn a blind eye to discrimination and then open persecution of the Jewish Germans who could be seen as ‘foreign’, ‘the other’, ‘the enemy within’. That is why media portrayals and reporting of Sikhs is so important and ‘worth bothering about’. Why is India media today able to so easily soft peddle the mass murder of over 5000 Sikhs in its capitol city just three decades ago?
3) The fact the army (through political pressure form the PM) does not want SIkh regiment on public display shows their disrespect for the most valorous and decorated regiment in its army. That disrespect then makes it easier for their officers not to question the morality and legality of attacking SIkh Gurdwaras and Sikhs when they are simply told ‘oh, we are just putting down a ‘rebellion’. It also sends the wrong message to millions of watching Indians.
Please remember that past Sarbatt Khalsa of 1970 -90 led to
1) Sikh militancy
2) OP blue star
3) Sikh genocide-3
To prevent an recurrence of that cycle the administration is taking necessary security measures.
As the state police can be over run so central forces help is being sought
Further in line up is the Army and then the Empire’s Army.
Outrageous propaganda which completely dispenses with historical truth. The more you talk the more I think Sikhs probably don’t have a future inside India because you are too intolerant of their religious rights and civil liberties and are not willing to change your bigotry.
1) Sikh ‘militancy’ secured India’s freedom – Karatar SIngh Sarabha, Bhagat Singh, Udham Singh, the Ghadr movement ring a bell?
2) Op Bluestar was mounted by Indira Gandhi as a means of securing an electoral victory in 1984 whereby her tarnished reputation might be salavaged by telling the Hindu masses, look I am tough strong leader I have taken on the strongest people in India, the Sikhs. The exact same Sikhs who had defied her when she illegally declared an emergency to rule by decree from 1975 to 1977 after she was convicted in an Allahabad Court.
3) Sikh genocide sponsored and sanctioned by Indian State which puts the son of the assassinated PM – an airline pilot who only came into politics when his brother died in plane crash – was suddenly elevated to the post of PM. IN which democratic country would the a grieving son be put in a position to exert personal revenge on an entire kaum of people using state apparatus? He gets Indian politicians falling over themselves to please him to instigate mobs to murder, rape and loot at will for over 4 days whilst Indian army kept well away and police even help identify Sikh households. All culprits protected by Indian judiciary and apologists and deniers like yourself even till this day.
You cannot talk of democracy when you are opposed to the very pillars of democracy – freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of religion, respect for civil liberties and human rights. You are utterly opposed to such concepts and pay lip service as when and when it suits you but no one is fooled by such brazen hypocrisy and prejudice.
The dislike in general for Sikhs by Congress is well Known to all of us .
The conflict is over the throne of India .
It is best for India to have all the CM of India electing the PM by rotations.
It is not just the Congress Party as the BJP cheered Indira Gandhi in Parliament after the attack on Darbar Sahib and the slaughter of thousands of Sikhs in the Punjab statewide in 1984. For that matter the Akali Dal in 1984 was also conspiring against Sikh interests and what it has since morphed into now with your friend Badal shows there is little distinction between any of the ruling parties. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Let us Tabulate who does us what to us
1) Congress :– has in its list the broken promises post 1947 of Chandigarh , Punjabi speaking areas , SYL problem , Op Blue star ,Genocide-3.
2) BJP :– Cheered when Op Blue star ,Genocide-3 happened.
3) Akali Dal :– Has a cosy relationship with BJP.
If you are going to ‘tabulate’ the sins of those antipathetic to the Sikh kaum do so comprehensively.
2) The BJP did not just’cheer’ Indira Gandhi for attacking the Darbar Sahib and the killing of Sikhs, they were actively engaged in mounting political pressure on her to do so in the Punjab. They had created and exploited a divide between the Punjabi Hindu and SIkh in 1966 and were instrumental in getting a referendum passed for ‘Hindu self determination’ rights and continued this sectarian agenda stoking political and media objections to the Anandpur Sahib Resolution after they had already hypocritically secured self determination for Punjabi Hindus. The BJP has been and is still today creating considerable communal tensions between former Sikh and Hindu brothers and with its thug wing the RSS is involved in both infiltrating and undermining the Akali Dal and SGPC.
3) It is not a ‘cosy’ relationship between the Akal (Ba)Dal and BJP but a parasitic one akin to a housemaid serving in a master’s house. The housemaid is expected to cook and clean but also give additional services as and when the master requires them. The venereal disease the housemaid has caught from such an illicit relationship has been passed onto the Akali Dal’s other bed partner the SGPC such that both formerly Sikh panthic organisations are now feeding the growing tapeworm nestled in their guts rather than representing the interests of the Sikh kaum.
Don’t get agitated
India is part of realm of Empire not withstanding the 1947 virtual independence.
Any possibility of disturbances in law and order will invite a security response
So just chill and enjoy life.
We are all ruled by the EMPIRE and it’s created Nations.
We are all on a great voyage to distant planets and galaxies and parallel universes.
That force is there to create agitation as you well know. We even have the SGPC and Akali Badal collaborators on hand to act as agent provacoteurs.
RAPID REACTION FORCE WHY DONT YOU EVER GO TO BRICK FACTORIES WHERE HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN IN INDIA ARE FORCED INTO CHILD LABOUR? HOW ABOUT INDIAN GOVERNMENT GO RAID THESE ILLEGAL FACTORIES THAT ARE BASICALLY ENSLAVING LITTLE CHILDREN TO DO THEIR WORK? HUH INDIA? WHERE IS THE GOVERNMENT WHEN CHILDREN ARE HUMAN TRAFFICKED AND FORCED TO WORK IN INHUMANE CONDITIONS, MODERN DAY SLAVERY? WHERE INDIA? WHERE ARE YOU FOR REAL ISSUES? WHY DONT YOU COMBAT CORRUPTION? YOU CORRUPT UGLY INDIAN GOONS, THE MILITARY IS ONLY USED TO BENEFIT THIS HINDUTVA CORPORATE INDIA AND TO OPPRESS THE VOICES OF THE TRUTH
RAPID REACTION FORCE GET OUT OF PUNJAB AND GO DEAL WITH SOME REAL ISSUES IN INDIA LIKE ALL THE GANGS AND CORRUPT POLITICIANS, OH YEAH I FORGOT, YOU WORK FOR THESE DIRTY GOONS, YOU DISGUST ME, EW!
NO FREEDOM IN INDIA FOR SIKHS WHY IS THE MILITARY THERE WHEN PEOPLE ARE JUST GATHERING PEACEFULLY, SIKHS HAVE THE RIGHT TO SPEAK IN INDIA BUT INDIAN GOVERNMENT IS SO DISGUSTING, INHUMANE AND EVIL AND PLEASE PEOPLE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP SUPPORTING THAT DISGUSTING PARKASH BADAL, HIS STUPID SON AND HIS DUMB HARSIMRAT BADAL, THEY’RE ALL RATS AND OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES. TRAITORS TO THE SIKH KAUM, THE DONT CARE ABOUT SIKHS OR ORDINARY PUNJABIS THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT PLEASING HINDUTVA AND HINDU CORPORATE CONTROLLED INDIA.
~~MISS KAUR~~
Guru Nanak Dev Jio kirpa Pita Maharaj Jio sab Tuhi Tuhi Jio..Khalsa Nu Bah dey Jio_/\_
Where is the freedom for Sikhs ?
We haven’t had any since the fall of the Sikh Empire. At least the British had some semblance of a conscience.
India is an artificial country and the more totalitarian it tries to get, the faster it will fall.