SAD (A) on Opposition of BJP, Congress and Sena on Potrait of Sant Bhindranwale

Press Statement of SAD (A) on Opposition of BJP, Congress and Sena on Potrait of Sant Bhindranwale
Chandigarh
December 3, 2007

Guru Nanak’s epic battle to free the mind of all humans began some five and a half centuries earlier. It was intended to be an eternal campaign for justice, peace, human dignity and freedom of worship to all. It will continue until the last depraved human being seeking to control others and to use them for his own purpose admits defeat, changes course and accepts Akalpurakh’s Will to see everyone free and contented. This is the only holy war and must must be fought with the vehemence and intesity of a soldier at the battle front. Non-violent means are to be preferred as seven of the ten Gurus fought non-violently. But he who shirks an armed confrontation does unpardonable violence to the most profound concept ever evolved in human history. Such a person betrays Akalpurakh’s trust, the (tradition) birud of the Ten Gurus, and forfeits the purpose of life.

Sant Baba Jarnail Singh Bhinderanwale was a soldier of the Guru and fought the most humane war with the forces of evil trying to enslave the Sikh mind in particular. He fought it with courage and patience. He was not averse using violent means but never used them. To this day he has not been accused of any violent activity.

The forces of evil led by the Indian National Congress under Indira Gandhi, were at that time controlling the State, the Press and other instruments of power. By tactics that would put the most depraved humanbeing to shame, but perfectly in keeping with the the tradition of M. K. Gandhi and J. L. Nehru, the Congress villified and demonised not only the Sant, but the entire Sikh people (for which they sought half-hearted pardon in the country’s parliament decades later). In the most cowardly and inhuman manner, they attacked the Darbar (the only monument sacred to entire humankind), destroyed the Akal Takhat (the symbol of human freedom), the Sikh Reference Library (that preserved documents sacred to the memory of the Gurus, who came for everyone) and killed the almost unarmed Sant Baba Jarnail Singh Bhinderanwale who was the only general fighting for the cause of righteousness. This was done by illegally and unjustly misusing the armed forces of the country.

The Congress leaders, their agents and hangerson must know that the Sant Baba is a martyr whose memory is sacred to all who fight for justice and freedom. All those who express regard for him in any manner, only do honour to themselves. Though much delayed and carried out for the purpose of showing its proper place to the BJP, installation of the portrait in the Darbar complex which the Sant died defending, is a welcome step and a proud moment for the SGPC.
The Congressmen (and women) are invited to make a fresh assessment of their most celebrated leaders to whom the most violent acts, like vivisection of the country, the killings of atleast 1 million and the violent uprooting of 10 million people is directly attributable. Their claim to have obtained freedom, stands exposed by the use of nefarious mean to enslave the Sikh, Dalits, Muslims and others in the name of freedom. Many upheavals after 1947, in which hundreds of thousands of innocent freedom-loving individuals have been killed all over India by the use of the armed might of the Indian State, must be squarely nailed to their door. The colonial exploitation of the Punjab’s river waters is as great a crime in human history as any. Clearly, the dagger cutting the Punjab’s life-line is held in the Congress hands. Should they have the honesty to assess, they will find that all their leaders of the present and the past are ‘great’ only in their own parlance. All of them put together do not measure up to the Sant Baba’s knee, who was a moral collosus. If any semblence of grace is still left in them, they should withdraw their protest.
The Sikh people must consider whether the portraits and statues of Nehru and Gandhi that dot the sacred land of five rivers are in place amongst a people they devastated. These symbolise destruction of the Sikh Homeland and the Sikh faith. The Sikhs must ask for the removal of the hideous faces, busts and statues erected in the Punjab to emphasise Punjab’s status of a colony of the cow belt.

[The above recorded statement was signed by Bhai Daljit Singh Bittu, Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) and Gurtej Singh before being released to the Press. It was hoped that it would lead to a healthy debate and would put the matter of Sant’s portrait in proper perspective. It was however, universally ignored by the Press that has been airing only selected views on Sikh issues for the past six decades.]

Source: Email from S. Gurtej Singh