“Elections held in Punjab, India, were shown a mockery of democracy’, said Dr. Amarjit Singh, spokesperson of Panthic Committee and Exec. Director of Khalistan Affairs Center and Dr. Rajwant Singh, President of Punjab Human, Rights Organization North America, (PHRO) in a jointly held Dress conference at National Press Club in Washington D.C. on Feb.20,1992,
Dr. Amarjit Singh blasted the Indian government for misleading the world to believe that elections ‘in Punjab was a democratic process to restore there law and order and Popular government but it failed ‘underscore the fact that elections With less than 20% polling was a ‘learn and ate by the freedom loving people of Punjab that they no longer wish to be an integral part of India but boycott was a silent cry for demand of their Independent homeland Khalistan,
Dr. Rajwant Singh released the evidence of polling in the elections and said, “PHRO has re received many reports of widespread irregularities by the government during elections, We have evidence that fake votes were east in the presence of authorities and in some cases they have assisted ruling party’s candidates in his fraud.
The Panthic Committee (PC) spearheading the movement of Independent Sikh home land called for a boycott of elections held on Feb.19,1992, major Sikh political parties answered the call in keeping with the views of the masses. ‘Answering a question about PC, Dr. Amarjt Singh reiterates that our organization stands by the Declaration of Independence by the Sikh Nation on April 29,1986 and calls for a negotiated settlement to the conflict.
Dr Rajwant Singh said that his conversation with D.S.Gill, chairman of PHRO Ludhiana, Gill informed him of the fact that people in general are gaining confidence in standing against the injustices by the authorities. Village Councils and individuals had gathered evidence of poll rigging ‘and gave affidavits on poll fraud. Dr R .Singh further reiterated that is true that people of Punjab be also given an opportunity for democratic expression of their free will and to decide their own fate under United Nations supervision.
Dr. Amarjit Singh stressed that ‘with the crumbling of the Soviet Union, the Indian Union stands as the last state where hegemonic rule is brutally maintained by organs of the state imprisoning various nationalities through a Soviet styled democratic centralism and under a cast of artificial statehood. We call upon other nations in the world to raise a voice against the brutal suppression of the Sikh nation’s right to self-determination by the Indian government and its various agencies and institutions.”
Article extracted from this publication >> March 6, 1992
