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December 30, 2014

Hindu groups staged protest in various parts of Indian peninsula and demanded ban on Aamir Khan’s moive PK. Hindu groups reportedly vandalized certain theaters on Monday (29 Dec) where PK movie was being screened.
The Sikh Council UK has expressed concerns over recent reports revealing comments made by Margaret Thatcher, the UK Prime Minister of the time in 1984, against the Sikhs. The comments are said to have been made in talks with the Irish premier, Garret FitzGerald prior to the Anglo-Irish Agreement and are detailed in newly declassified papers released by the National Archives of Ireland.
The controversy over Aamir Khan’s PK escalated this weeks as Hindu groups vandalised theatres and multiplexes across several states, demanding a ban on the movie for allegedly showing Hindu religion and Hindu gods in ‘bad light’.
A delegation of Sant Samaj today met Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh and tendered him a demanding requesting his intervention to secure release of Sikh political prisoners who are confined in jails even after completing terms of their sentences.
A Sikh delegation comprising Giani Mal Singh (Jathedar of Takht Kesgarh Sahib), Damdami Taksal chief Baba Harnam Singh Dumma, DSGMC president Manjit Singh GK, Sikh Council UK special representative Inderjit Singh and others today met Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
Senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Jarnail Singh maintained that 49 BJP and RSS workers were named in 14 FIRs related to November 1984 killings of Sikhs in Delhi. He said that the cases were registered following the recommendation of the Jain-Aggarwal Committee that was formed to examine the affidavits filed by riot victims before various probe panels.
A release by 1984 Genocide Coalitions says [f]urther top secret information has emerged about Margaret Thatcher’s averse and hostile attitude towards Sikhs; twelve months after initial disclosures of the British Prime Minister’s active collusion with the Indian government, in giving ‘advice’ and full moral support for the Indian government’s military genocide on Sikhs in 1984.
The World Sikh Organization of Canada has written to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling for the release of Sikh prisoners who have served their minimum mandatory sentences in Indian prisons.

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