Journalist: Mr. Ambassador, Five Singh Sahibs have through an
Edict dissolved all the Akali Dals and called upon their office-bearers to submit their resignations.
Ambassador: That’s right.
Journalist: Chiefs of different Akali Dals including Baba Joginder
Singh, Parkash Singh Badal, and Jagdev Singh Talwandi have
Submitted their resignations because traditionally an edict issued by
The Five Singh Sahibs is mandatory for every Sikh.
Ambassador: Very correct.
Jouranlist: How is it that Surjit Singh Barnala has not submitted his resignation? Doesn’t he consider himself a Sikh? Has he secretly embraced some other religion?
Ambassador: Not in national interest to disclose.
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Journalist: Mr. Ambassador, Rajiv Gandhi shifted his tough Finance
Minister, Mr. V.P. Singh, to the Defense portfolio and timed it with the massive military buildup all along the Pakistan border.
Ambassador: That’s right.
Jouranlist: Mr. Singh was believed to be doing an excellent job as Finance Minister. He had struck an awe in the hearts of the tax evaders by raiding big business, houses and unearthing tax evasions
amounting to millions.
Ambassador: Very correct.
Journalist: Do you think Rajiv has shifted Singh under pressure from the business tycoons of India? Doesn’t it show, the so called Mr.
Clean is not after all so clean?
Ambassador: Not in national interest to disclose.
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Journalist: Mr. Ambassador, day in and day out Delhi rulers and Hindu dominated Indian media keep on repeating that only a handful of trouble shooters among the Sikhs are demanding Khalistan.
Ambassador: That’s right.
Journalist: Punjab Police Chief, J.F. Ribeiro, had also been saying that there were hardly forty freedom fighters. According to police and C.R.P.F. records already more than hundred freedom fighters have been killed and nearly a thousand have been arrested. Ambassador: Very correct.
Journalist: How is it thousands of Sikhs assembled at Amritsar on January 26, 1986, opted for Independence rather than leading a second class citizen’s life in India? Will the Government of India
agree to hold a referendum in Punjab to determine whether Sikhs want Khalistan or not?
Ambassador: Not in national interest to disclose.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 13, 1987
