LONDON: Welcoming the call of the Sikh youth for KAR SEVA (voluntary labor) at Amritsar for rebuilding the Akal Takhat which was brutally destroyed and desecrated by the invading Indian Army. Dr. Chohan said that he would have loved to be in Amritsar at this time to contribute his might to the holy task but the governments of the world have made him immobile. He urged Sikhs living in this country and elsewhere to go to Armitsar in as large a number as possible and participate in the historic and pious task. Reflecting on the history of the Sikhs, Dr. Chohan said: “On the one hand a Sikh does not forgive tyranny and trechery. On the other, he does not forget a good deed done unto him.” He pointed out that the Sikhs have always appeared like a suppressed flame to rise into higher splendor from every attempt to crush them. This time, he said, will be no exception. Dr. Choban cautioned the Sikh nation that the rebuilding of the Akal Takhat must sanctify the Sikh minds but not dim their memory. By the attack on the Golden Temple complex, by the choice of the day that the attack was mounted and by the accompanying oppression in Punjab and Government of India has proved that it does not abide by the very Constitution that it upholds as protection to the Sikhs, The need of the times, Dr. Chohan concluded, is for the Sikhs to write their own Constitution and create {institutions to uphold it.
Article extracted from this publication >> January 17, 1986
