Desire for Sikh homeland still alive and kicking: Dal Khalsa; Greets Pak Muslim & Indian Hindus on their Independence day
By Prabh Singh
Published: August 14, 2012
Hoshiarpur, Punjab (August 15, 2012): Extending its greetings to the Muslims of Pakistan and Hindus of India for enjoying the fruits of their independence, the Dal Khalsa rues that ‘Sikhs were not lucky enough to get their own Homeland 65 years ago on this day’.
Party head H S Dhami in a policy statement said while Pakistan and India were celebrating their 65th Independence Day with great fervor, we, the Sikhs regret that “we had missed the bus”. However, he reiterated that the Sikh desire for freedom is alive and kicking.
By tying their destiny with India in 1947 on this day, the Sikhs literally enslaved themselves again. “Since then, whenever we had asked for our rights, we had to face bullets, detention and hardships, said he. He urged the Sikhs not to forget the various actions taken by Indian state against the Sikhs before taking part in celebrations.
He said the genesis of the Sikh problem was rooted in the betrayal of commitments and promises Indian leaders made during the partition. Appointing individuals at the higher ranking constitutional post was a ploy to deceive the world that the country was “secular” in real sense, he pointed out.
He said, on the entire political spectrum, from left to right, we are suffering from an overdose of over-patriotism. “Presently, in India, dissension is sedition”.
The last few decades have been tumultuous years of denial, torment, torture, mayhem, vandalism and death. Of course, there have been individual success stories. Playing divide and rule game, the Indian state heaped and perpetuated hate, animosity and discrimination on the one hand and on the other afforded opportunity and provided sponsorship to some individuals to rise to heights of glory, creating a façade of satisfaction and inculcating a misplaced sense of glory and welfare of the whole Sikh corpus.
“Some may think that we are always negative, that we see the darker side of things. It is not so. We are always positive about the future of our people. We are only reiterating our fundamental freedom to be masters of our own destiny, exactly in the same way as others have done so far”.
He urged the Indian state and the world community to acknowledge the right to self determination of all struggling peoples in accordance with international treaties and covenants, which all democratic nations are expected to adhere to and oblige.
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We have a Sikh Prime Minister and the Chief of the Army another Sikh. If the community feels so bad, then they have all the right people in right places to do anything it feels like. Or may be Mr. Dhami wants to be the Prime Minister.
@S Kumar: if Mr. Dhami does wish to be president and is made president of India im sure he’d do a much better job then the current puppet of the hindu murderers.
If Mr. Dhami or another true Siklh of the akal panth is made the head of india..people like you had better watch out.
You think we are foooled by you putting a so called sikh in power?? he’s a puppet, hes a coward and in my eyes he is not a sikh of Guru Gobind Singh Ji. if he was tyrants would be eradicated just like Guru Gobind SIngh Ji did.
Manmohan Singh doesnt reaslly LEAD. he is LED-by hindus. who MURDER, RAPE and TORTURE our SIKH PEOPLE. get your facts right.
Khalistan Zindabad.
Nothing wrong with having aspirations of sikh homeland. Nothing wrong with the desire to be ‘masters of our own destiny’.
The trouble is the concept of sikh homeland , sikh state, khalistan, a sikh state with more political and economic rights etc are not articulated properly and created a lot of confusion even among sikhs. For non sikhs, this confusion turned to be political tool to blame sikhs as anti national who are threat to country’s integrity. Even sikh intelligentia is not clear about the real solution of sikh aspiration.
The second part is to be the masters of our own destiny. It sounds good but wherever the sikhs got power- the general sikh population did not find it any different. The prime example is the power struggle for gurdwaras in North America. It is contaminated with same weaknesses and evils of power- though it is not an absolute power. Unfortrunately- they all claim to be the committed supporters of independent sikh state Khalistan. The arrogant behaviour of these leaders made the general population of sikhs to think- what will be their destiny if these people get the power of a state? People want to support but they do not want to experence, “Shah mohamda Firan Sardar lukde, bhoot mandli hoi tiar mian.” I know things within india are somewhat different, but still poeple need to know that how will the Sikh homeland regime be differnt than the current regime?