Sir,
India recently celebrated the birth centenary of Jawaharlal Nehru. Glowing tributes were paid to his sacrifices in the cause of India’s freedom.
A quick review of today’s many pressing problems facing India will point an accusing finger to none else than Nehru. He recognized and reiterated in public in 1946 before independence, the contribution of the Sikhs to India’s freedom struggle and their entitlement to a place in free India where “the Sikhs could also feel the glow of freedom.” Upon achieving freedom, he backed out, perhaps under the unholy influence of elite Brahmin coterie surrounding him, Of course under the same influences he refused to apply the principle of one state, one language in case of Punjab which the Indian National Congress had adopted in one of its annual sessions in the 1920’s and thereby laid the foundation of the present problem in Punjab.
He also made a solemn commitment before the UN General Assembly in 1948 that he would have a plebiscite in Kashmir. Again he backed out on his word and what we now have is the struggle by the Kashmiris for the same freedom which the test of Hindu India enjoys.
Nehru is responsible for these two blunders and kept these festering sores in the body politic of India and this led to the suppression of Sikh and Moslem sentiment by promoting division within the two communities.
Amarjit Singh Buttar Director, Public Relations Council of Khalistan
Article extracted from this publication >> March 2, 1990
