CHANDIGARH: India’s ruling Congress Party offer of $333,333 or 10 million rupees to anyone who assassinate Pakistan writer Sadiq Hussain is the direct violation of Sikh principles. Hussain’s book Tarik-e-Mujahedeen (History of the Rebels), contains pro- fane and derogatory remarks about the Sikh Gurus, who are revered by the world’s 21 million Sikhs. The Congress Party is the ruling Indian political party. It is not a Sikh religious group of any kind. It was the Congress Party that attacked the holy Sikh Golden Temple in June 1994, and is still despised by Sikhs the world over. No popular Sikh group has endorsed or supported the Congress Party’s “death warrant.” The ‘death warrant, which subverts Sikh religious institutions and procedures for dealing with Hussain’s book, is the first of its kind in Sikh history. In- deed, the “death warrant” was issued in a statement on March 6 by Ramesh Singla of the Congress Party, who is a Hindu, not a Sikh. Commenting on the Congress party “death warrant,” Dr.Gurmeet Singh Aulakh, of Council of Khalistan, has categorically condemned the Congress Party’s attack on the natural catholicity of the Sikh religion. How dare the Congress Party attack the Sikh religion by issuing a “death war- rant” in breach of Sikh principles. How dare the Congress Party subvert the authority of the Akal Takht (seat of Sikh temporal authority in Amritsar, Punjab Khalistan) to deal with this matter, said Dr.Aulakh. The Congress Party destroyed the Akal Takht in June 1984 and it is attacking the Akal Takht again by issuing this ‘death warrant. The Sikh nation will not stand for it, he announced.
If the Congress Party wants to help the Sikh Nation, it should respect October 7,1987 declaration of Independence, and vacate Khalistan immediately, a press note said.
It is the height of hypocrisy for the Congress Party, whose government has murdered Sikhs it deems as “terrorist,” to issue this ‘death warrant.” Why doesn’t Punjab Police Chief K.P.S.Gill arrest and kill Congress Party members for encouraging terrorism, as does and has done to Sikhs in Punjab-Khalistan for supposedly engaging in the same crimes.
The press statement added that it is quite possible that this controversy is a prelude to war with Pakistan over Kashmir. The Research and Analysis Wing of Indian government wants the Sikh Nation to side with India, and has created this controversy in order to garner support for the Indian government. Pakistan is not Sikhs enemy but the tyrannical Indian government and the Congress Party are.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 18, 1994
