Khalistani separationist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has actually claimed in a declaration that Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has actually validated the Sikhs for Justice’s Khalistani mandate project by claiming on his United States go to, “Fight in India is on whether a Sikh will be allowed to wear a turban and kada, go to gurudwara.”
“Rahul’s statement on ” existential risk to Sikhs in India” is not only bold and pioneering but is also firmly grounded in the factual history of what Sikhs have been facing under successive regimes in India since 1947 and also corroborates SFJ’s stance on the justification for Punjab Independence Referendum to establish Sikh homeland Khalistan,” Pannun even more claimed in his declaration.
What did Gandhi state?
Addressing an event of numerous hundred Indian Americans in Herndon, a Virginia residential area of Washington DC, on Monday, Gandhi implicated the RSS of thinking about some religious beliefs, languages and neighborhoods of being substandard to others and claimed the battle in India has to do with this and not concerning national politics.
“First of all, you have to understand what the fight is about. The fight is not about politics. That is superficial,” Gandhi claimed as he asked among the Sikh guests in the front rows to offer his name. “What is your name, brother with the turban,” he asked.
“The fight is about whether a Sikh is going to be allowed to wear his turban in India or a kada in India. Or he, as a Sikh, is going to be able to go to a gurdwara. That’s what the fight is about. And not just for him, for all religions,” claimed Gandhi, that gets on a four-day see to the United States, which started Saturday.
How did the BJP respond?
The BJP boiled down greatly on Gandhi over his statements, claiming the Congress leader is attempting to develop a “dangerous narrative” by talking on “sensitive issues” abroad.
Union priest Hardeep Singh Puri informed an interview at the BJP head office below that Gandhi’s statements were “sinister” in nature as he attempted to spread out fraud amongst the participants of the Sikh area living abroad to “eke out a living” and do not have much link with India.
With his statements, the Congress leader has actually struck the nation, its lawful system and selecting system, he claimed.
“I condemn in the strongest terms the statement he has made about Sikhs not being able to wear turbans and kadas,” the BJP leader from the Sikh area claimed.
Referring to the 1984 anti-Sikh troubles that took place throughout the Congress’ regulation, Puri claimed, “If there has been one time in our history when as a community we have felt anxiety, a sense of insecurity and existential threat, it has been the times when Rahul Gandhi’s family has been in the seats of power.”
“In 1984, a pogrom was carried out against the Sikh community. As many as 3,000 innocent people were killed. People were dragged out of their homes, tyres were put around them and burnt alive,” he claimed.
That was the only time in background when Sikhs encountered a trouble for their bandanas as they encountered an existential risk after Rajiv Gandhi’s declaration that when a huge tree drops, the planet trembles, Puri claimed.
“In the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, many of my friends shed their turbans and got clean shaven out of fear because they were attacked,” he included.
(With PTI inputs)
Published 11 September 2024, 04:50 IST