CHANDIGARH—The peaceful agitation begun by the Sarbat Khalsa appointed acting Akal Takht Jathedar Bhai Dhian Singh Mand has successfully completed 52 days today. Bhai Dhian Singh Mand had started this agitation on June 1, 2018 seeking the arrests of Bargari sacrilege culprits and the release of political Sikh prisoners.
During these 52 days of struggle, the struggle of Bhai Dhian Singh Mand has successfully forced the Punjab government to take action to sort out Sikh issues. Under the pressure of this agitation, the Punjab government gave liberty to the Police team to unearth the conspirators of Bargari sacrilege, and it is the result of this liberty that today near about all the conspirators are behind the bars. Recently, the Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh has even written letters to the chief ministers of Karnataka and Rajasthan seeking premature release of political Sikh prisoner Bhai Gurdeep Singh Khera and transfer of Bhai Harnek Singh Bhapp to Punjab respectively.
Although the recent moves of the Punjab government have brought somewhat relief to the Sikh masses, but all this has really put the entire Akali leadership into deep worry. The Akali leadership has gone so frustrated that its controversial leaders like Virsa Valtoha and Prem Singh Chandumajra have drawn intense flak from Sikh masses by making false and baseless accusations on the Bargari agitation.
Sources have informed that the Akali leaders Virsa Valtoha and Prem Singh Chandumajra are speaking against the Bargari agitation at the behest of SAD president Sukhbir Badal as his role in ordering firing on the peaceful protesting Sikhs at Behbal Klan might be brought to fore by the Justice Ranjit Singh led Investigation commission in coming days.
It may be recalled here that two innocent Sikh youths namely Shaheed Bhai Krishan Bhagwan Singh and Shaheed Bhai Gurjit Singh Nikke Sarawan were martyred in an unprovoked firing opened by the Punjab police on peacefully protesting Sikhs at Behbal Klan on October 14, 2015. The peacefully protesting Sikhs were seeking arrest of the culprits of Bargari sacrilege.
