IT was not many moons ago that the Sikhs of India were sacrificed on the altar of political expediency. The Khalistan Council and Dr. Jagjit Singh Chohan had warned all numerical and power minorities of India that sooner or later each one of them is likely to pay the same price as the Sikhs had paid. The events of last ten days confirm that conclusion. On the one hand, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, makes very pious pronouncements about the “unity and integrity” of India. On the other he constantly sacrifices the interests of one State or one people or one minority group to gain tactical advantage for his party — Congress (I) Party. Lesser people who indulge in such tactics are accused of sedition. Mr. Gandhi seems to be above the law of the land. In the last general elections in India the polling booths were built on the ashes of thousands of innocent Sikhs. The paranoia thus created brought to Mr. Gandhi the votes of all those who unthinkingly placed their faith and fate in his hands. And there were many such people. Another General Election is round the corner. And State Elections have been exerting their own peculiar pressures on the Congress (I) Party. The Hindu vote of Haryana is more crucial for the survival of Mr. Gandhi not only as the Prime Minister of India but as a politician than was the Hindu vote in the last General Elections. And that Hindu vote will float towards him only on the blood streams of the innocent Muslims of India against whom an organized orgy of killing is being staged in Meerut as well as Delhi.
Permit not the blood of the Sikhs and the Muslims to be spilled uselessly. Dip your pens in that blood and ” write a new chapter of human emancipation, of freedom from fear and hate and from politically imposed death.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 19, 1987
