Sir,
AS one of those who met with Mr. Ram Jethmalani during his recent visit to New York, I Would likes to share with your readers, his thoughts and my responses to them.
While the Sikh nation has to be grateful to Mr. Jethmalani for his defending Kehar Singh and Simiranjit Singh Mann, no One but the Sikhs can decide what their future is going to be. If as he says Khalistan cannot be achieved by force, then by the same token, force can’t suppress the will to be free.
If India wants peace, let there be total peace, let there be Khalistan. Are Sikhs and other minorities to be discriminated, maimed, killed, and their belongings plundered, all in the name of a united India?
Mr. Jethmalani said that Simiranjit Singh Mann could not function properly since he was under pressure from a lot of factions. Isn’t VP Singh also under pressure from the right wing BJP and the left wing communist parties which constitute two of the three legs his coalition government?
If India thinks that Sikhs and Punjabis are its own people then it would not be giving Khalistan or some other foreign country-it would be freeing its own people who would be friendly neighbors. Or has India already decided that Sikhs are foreigners.
As an author aptly said, “If you love someone, set him free; if he returns, he is yours; if he doesn’t return, he was never yours.”
Randhir Singh Elmhurst, NY
Article extracted from this publication >> February 23, 1990
