WASHINGTON D.C: Sikh community of the Washington metropolitan area was represented by the Guru Gobind Singh Foundation (GGSF) on January 15 at an interfaith service commemorating, Dr. Martin Luther King’s 60th Birth Anniversary.
The service was held at the Washington Hebrew Congregation. It was hosted by the Jewish community.
The function was organized and sponsored by Interfaith Conference (IFC) of Washington DC. It was attended by fifteen hundred people representing the Protestant, Roman Catholic, Mormon, Islamic, Jewish and Sikh faiths.
The effort embodied the dream of Dr. King that “Jews and Gentiles, Blacks and Whites” would work together.
Martin Luthers life was cruelly and prematurely taken away.. But his dream and vision still lives in our hearts and the hearts of all freedom loving men and women” said LF.C. statement.
A significant feature of the event was an interfaith and interracial combined choir in which 10 members of the Sikh community clad in saffron turbans and white kurta pajamas sang in the western trade precaution for Dr. Rajinder Kaurs sewa to the Sikh panth. No organization of freedom fighters had committed this dastardly act, he retreated.
He expressed his apprehension that Dr. Rajinder Kaur was killed by the police to put the freedom fighters in an embarrassing position or she was the victim of the internal power struggle within the Akali Dal.
Dr. Rajinder Kaur had been involved in Sikh politics from her childhood and was the publisher, editor of a monthly Punjabi language magazine, “Sant Sipahi” where she expressed her opinions fearlessly. She is survived by her husband and children.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 10, 1989
