Sikhs can reclaim their honor and sovereignty with the establishment of the Republic of Khalistan. It can be theirs if they would strive enough for it. It is entirely within the realm of possibility if one only remembers that it took the jailing of 57,000 Sikhs before the present Hindu Government at New Delhi conceded the demand for a

Punjabi-linguistic state: Punjabi-Suba, in 1966, after two decades of Sikh agitation. That agitation coincidentally witnessed two Sikh leaders, in 1961, proclaiming that they would “fast unto death”. In both instances the fast was broken voluntarily by each leader. But a third, subsequently, maintained his resolve and did fast unto death. His name was Darshan Singh Pheruman who died in the Amritsar hospital.

Sikh sovereignty is inherent in their institutions. Sikhs are individually and collectively a sovereign people. This has been patented by their Gurus. From early times, at least from the time of the Sixth Guru Har Gobind Sahib, the “Akal-Takhat”, located opposite to the Sikh Temple at Amritsar, was the traditional citadel of Sikh political sovereignty and still is.

The part played for the acquisition of Sikh ascendancy in our history is attributable as much to non-Jat or non-agriculturist Sikhs as to the predominant group in our nation.1.

When as yet the Shiromani Akali Dal (the political arm) and the Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee (the statutory body that governs the Sikh Temples in the Punjab, since the enactment of the of the Gurudwaras Act, 1925) had not come into being, it took individuals of the non-predominant group, the non-Jat Sikhs, to set free our sacred institutions of Sri Akal-Takhat and the Golden Temple at Amritsar, from the control of British administrators acting through their appointees. S. Teja Singh Bhuchar (founder of the Akali movement), S. Kartar Singh Jhabbar, Bhai Dhera Singh Mazhbi, Bhai Mehtab Singh and Bhai Veer Singh, indeed marched from the site of firings at the Jalianwala Bagh to Sri Akal Takhat and Sri Harimandir and physically took possession of those premises. They set into motion the Lehars or vibrations and movements that subsequently crystallized into Sh. Akali Dal and the S.G.P.C., the former then falling under the leadership of Baba Kharak Singh.2.

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  1. Dr. Fauja Singh: “The State Under Ranjit Singh – a harmonious combination of Sikh Nationalism and Secularism,” ibid, p. 41, where Dr. Fauja Singh observes, ‘For instance, there is strong evidence to show that that Sikhs in the 18th and 19th centuries were permeated with national feelings.”
  2. See the monthly Punjabi magazine, ‘Sura’, April, 1981, p. 22, article byS. Shamsher Singh Ashok, “Sri-Akal-Takhat Sahib and its Historical Significance.”

and Sura, March, 1981, (Amritsar), p. 11, transcript of an oration by Bawa Harkrishan Singh, “A Touching Plaint to the Khalsa Panth” delivered from the precincts of Sri Akal-Takhat Sahib.