TARN TARAN, Punjab—The head of Budda Dal, Balbir Singh, has reportedly presided over a gathering of Nihang Dals and have made a decision in favour of supporting the pardoning of the controversial cult chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim.
The meeting between a number of Nihang Dals took place at the ‘Misal Shaheedan Tarna Dal’ camp at Gurduara Shaheed Baba Naudh Singh Cant.
The nihang organisation, having kept an alarming distance during the Sikh sangat’s drive to implement the 2007 Akal Takht Hukumnama about the cultist dera, have now said that their organizations will follow the decision to grant Gurmeet Ram Rahim a pardon. They said that the move to grant pardon to dera chief was a healthy step in maintaining communal harmony.
So far, nearly all Panthik organizations have all strongly opposed the decision that the Jathedars of the five Takhts have made to pardon the cult leader. The decision is believed to have been announced under pressure from ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal).
The only groups to support the controversial decision by the Jathedars are notably those that are known to maintain an allegiance to the SAD (Badal) party.
The so-called Bhuddha Dal has played a treacherous role since 1984. Everyone will note the stark actions of the then head of this now defunct, notorious group, namely Santa Singh, who openly sided with the Indian government in proceeding to take direct, frontline action in the re-building of the destroyed ‘Akaal Takht’. This same individual is on video as stating clearly that Sikhs are a part of Hindu’s and Hinduism. Standard pro-Indian, pro-govt, pro-Hindu, Hindi, Hindustan indoctrination and imperialism. In contrast with the Tarnal Dal, which represents the ‘younger’ section of Nihangs, the Bhuddha Dal has been playing a notoriously lame, defunct, collaborationist role with the forces of the Indian state, Badalism, Hindu-dom, etc. The Nihangs historically have a shining reputation for being the frontline soldiers and defenders of Sikhi, Panjaab, etc. They epitomise the true saintly and soldierly qualities of a true Sikh. However, in the 20th century, they have become a largely lame, despirited, despoiled force. This decay is symptomatic of the general downward pressure and undermining of the integrity and sovereign strength and spirit of the Sikh civilisation and its people, under the subjugation of non-Panjaabi, non-Sikh forces – which will invariably undermine and deplete Sikhi and the Sikhs. The Tarna Dal has played a powerful and positive role in the current Sikh struggle, playing a lead role with Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale in the Dharam Yudh Morcha of the 1980s and in the earlier Sikh struggles and the post 1984 struggles. The Nihangs today should essentially be a powerful, frontline force in the Sikh struggle. Unfortunately, this is not the case.
nihanga nay chudiyan pa liyan.