OP/ED: UKPHA, GT 1588, Kashi House, support “Fake” Nihang Niddar

In a bizarre twist of events, a blog exposing Niddar (www.sarbloh.com) who has proclaimed himself as the “Last Sikh Warrior” has close ties with number of organizations who tie themselves  with Sikh heritage. The UK Punjab Heritage Association (“UKPHA”), Golden Temple 1588 (GT 1588), and Kashi House have all been clearly linked with Niddar. Niddar who has proclaimed him self as a “Nihang” has been clearly disowned by the Dals via a public statement to say he in no way represents Nihang Dals. In a recent blog post shastervidiya.org exposes connection between these organizations and Nidar. Several organ­izations run and cre­ated by Nidar’s cult mem­bers’ sup­port him. Like GT 1588 who have over 5000 likes on face­book and UKPHA, East­ern Arts Part­ner­ship, as well as Asian Health Ini­ti­at­ive, all run by Parmjit Gre­wal and Aman­deep Madra. They had to change their name due to the Sangat asso­ci­at­ing UKPHA with Niddar .

Parmjit with his Mas­ter Nidar

Here are two examples of just some of the Grants they have received:

Applic­ant: Asian Health Her­it­age Amount awar­ded: £49,900 Applic­ant: East­ern Arts Part­ner­ship Amount awar­ded: £59, 000

They have applied for approx­im­ately 20–30 grants we know about ran­ging from £10,000 to £100,000 totalling an estim­ated 2 mil­lion pounds. They have received grants from Eng­lish Her­it­age, Brit­ish Academy, National Her­it­age Memorial Fund, HLF, private donors and oth­ers, pos­ing as genu­ine Sikh Historians. Through this they invite Niddar and pay him large sums to attend, and sup­port his parchar. Without them Niddar can­not sur­vive fin­an­cially. Report them to local bod­ies for ‘Incit­ing Reli­gious Hatred’ 2006. All they do is cause trouble to get atten­tion. This year at their lame exhib­i­tion it was repeatedly said at one of the main talks that Khalsa is from Shiva! and Khalsa is Hindu-Sikh. Boy­cott these lame account­ants and pseudo kung fu nangs!

Nidar being pro­moted via her­it­age projects
Niddar being pro­moted via her­it­age projects GT 1588

Someone who atten­ded their last exhib­i­tion at the Brunei Gal­lery GT 1588 (where Niddar was the main speaker) Mani Singh had the fol­low­ing to say:

I per­son­ally did attend the exhib­i­tion and yes there was some very inter­est­ing arti­facts there. The people under­tak­ing the guided tours were very pro­fes­sional and artic­u­late. It is just a shame that they were pro­mot­ing san­atamism. The guide, many times made com­par­is­ons between hindus and sikhs i.e. a sikh can be there is no dif­fer­ence between someone keep­ing their hair and those that chose not to, he talked about the rituals per­formed at Hazoor Sahib, which many right think­ing indi­vidu­als know to be totally against sikhi, they stated that was what our Guru ji’s wanted and what was hap­pen­ing out­side Hazoor Sahib was largely the mod­ern­ized ver­sion of sikhi!! I was just ashamed that anti-sikh prac­tices were being pro­moted is such a pro­fes­sional man­ner, some­thing which is totally alien to the major­ity of sikh camps, lec­tures, lit­er­at­ure or like minded events. (Mani Singh)

Niddar doing a talk at the GT1588 Golden Temple exhib­i­tion teach­ing his snatanHindu-Sikh ideo­logy to the unsus­pect­ing public

2 COMMENTS

  1. It is very sad that THIS SO CALLED LAST SIKH WARRIOR IE, NIDDAR [ WHO IS HIMSELF [HINDU/BRAHMIN ?}] HAS NOT BEEN STOPPED BY
    ANY OTHER SIKH GROUPS IN UK , USA OR CANADA. FOR GETTING /CONNING MONEY FROM CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS IN THE NAME OF SIKHI.

    IT WILL BE ADVISABLE THAT THE CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS SHOULD BE MORE VIGILANT TO WHICH GROUPS THEY GIVE THEIR MONEY AND TO KEEP A CONTROL OR RECORD HOW IT IS BEEN USED.

    THIS GROUP IS LIKE AL-KAIDA OF INDIA..

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