At the District Immigration Court political asylum hearing in New York for Harjit Singh, of India, it was revealed that he was a member of the All India Sikh Student’s Federation, which is affiliated with the Damdami Taksaal. The attorney for the government introduced a document put out by the State Department which states that the Damdami Taksal is a terrorist organization.

The Damdai Taksal is a Sikh institute of learning founded by the tenth and last Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh ji. It is a travelling Sikh University founded for the purpose of training students in the understanding of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, Sikh religious princples, and traditions. The Damdami Taksal is about 300 years old, and has as its first Jathdear, Baba Deep

Singh. Even today the present Jathedar of the Damdami Taksal, Baba Thakur Singh is considred a saintly person. The Sikh masses hold more respect for the Damdami Taksal than any other Sikh organization .

It is understandable that the US. State Department lacks knowledge of these facts, They simply go by the disinformation campaign launched by the Indian government to discredit every Sikh organization.

There will be the increased withdrawal of the Sikh community from the government that seems hell bent on destroying the revered Sikh institutions and way of life. The Indian government officials who supplied this information must have forgotten the role that the students of the Damdami Taksal played in the Indian history by saving thousands of Hindu women from the hands of the Mogals who. planned to sell them as prostitutes in the streets of their own countries. The Damdami Taksal has always been in the forefront in the battle to save the humanity. They have been taught to stand for human values, justice and dignity. Just look at the pages of history. The Indian government should be ashamed of telling foreign agencies that the Damdami Taksal is a terrorist organization.

In India today It is illegal to be a member or sympathizer of AISSF. or Damdami Taksal. Tomorrow, the new generation of Indians may make it illegal to be a Sikh! Then every person belonging to the Sikh Religion will be legally a terrorist by dint of being a Sikh.

Article extracted from this publication >>  June 9, 1989