CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) executive demanded immediate stoppage of the BJP president, Mr L. K. Advani’s Somnath Ayodhya ratha yatra as it had “unleashed a trail of carnage and communal confrontation”.
In a resolution adopted at its meeting at Chandigarh the SGPC executive alleged that the bogey of Babri Masid had been made a cloak for “up surging Hindu polity” and burying of the destiny of the minorities in the country. The SGPC president Mr G.S. Tohra, who presided over the meeting, described the rath yatra as agni.
A resolution was passed which said that the attack on the Akal Takht in 1984 was the first salvo to subjugate the Sikh minority. Mr Tohra had foretold the disastrous consequences of the attack in a letter to the then Prime Minister in June 1984.
The resolution asked the minorities and the backward classes to thwart the “onslaught of Hindu chauvinism” if the yatra continued.
In another resolution, the SGPC executive criticised the extension of the President’s rule in Punjab and described it as a conspiracy by all political parties professedly secular and democratic to throw the Sikhs out of the democratic process.
It called upon the Sikh representatives not to accept nominations ‘on bodies or join deliberations with.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 19, 1990
