Prime Minister Gurmej Singh Gill has called upon the Sikh emigrants settled abroad to renounce Indian nationality and surrender their Indian passports.
In a message to the nation on Vaisakhi, the anniversary of the founding of the Khalsa Panth by the tenth Guru of Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh Ji 296 years ago, Mr. Gill also urged the Sikhs at present living in other parts of Indian Union to return to Punjab, the Sikh homeland, to play their role in liberating it from the Indian stranglehold and establishing the sovereign state of Khalistan in it.
“As the first Vaisakhi in 1699 was starting point of the liberation of Sikh homeland from the tyrannical rule by the Moghals.” Mr. Gill said “let us make this Vaisakhi the starting point of its liberation from the tyrannies or the Hindu chauvinists.” “The Sikhs were lured into this stranglehold with false promises by the leadership of the Indian National Congress from Mahatma Gandhi downwards,” he pointed out. “But for these promises of recognition of Sikh nationality and Sovereignty in a free India-the Swaraj Movement could never have ended in the Congress inheriting power over the vast human and material resources of more that three fourths of the South Asian sub-continent.”
“The conduct of the Indian rulers ever since the Indian independence on August 15, 1947, clearly proves that the promises made to the Sikhs during the run-up to independence were never intended to be fulfilled,” he added, “According to the. Indian Penal Code itself, the promises which lured the Sikhs into the Indian Union were nothing more than fraud-and the Sikhs stand absolved of any obligation to abide by the Indian Constitution, which has never been accepted by their representatives in the Indian Parliament.”
He said that the Sikhs, being a peace-loving nation used all peaceful means of inducing the Indian rulers to honor the pledges made to them during the Swaraj Movement, but the latter remained intransigent.
Misconstruing the peaceful protests of the Sikhs as servility, the Indian rulers gradually stepped up their rough-shod behavior-culminating in the June, 1984 about assault on the Sikh nation, he further said. “This assault, followed by the ongoing regime of the offences against the lives, property and honor of the Sikh nation, triggered the current war of independence in the Sikh homeland” he said. He said that submitting to tyranny and injustice was contrary to the teaching of the Sikh faith and the example set by Guru Gobind Singh Ji on Vaisakhi of 1699. He urged the Sikh to abide by the Sikh traditions and carry the struggle to its logical conclusion-total victory over the tyrant and the establishment of the sovereign state of Khalistan.
He said that the minimum expected of the Sikh emigrants, settled in Europe, UK, USA, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the world, was that they should renounce Indian nationality forthwith, surrender their Indian passports and adopt the nationalities of their respective host countries-thus freeing themselves of the constraints imposed by the diplomatic protocol.
He also said that the Sikhs living in other parts of the Indian Union should take note of the menacing statements by the communalist leaders like Bal Thakray, and forestall the plans to reduce them to slavery by returning to their homeland-the Punjab-and join the heroic struggle being conducted by the Sikhs to liberate it.
Mr. Gill himself renounced Indian Nationality even before the Indian assault on the Golden Temple, and freed himself of the constraints of diplomatic protocol by adopting British nationality.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 21, 1995
