Hoshiarpur, Punjab (May 17, 2014): Terming the Modi wave as nothing but radicalization of Indian polity, the Dal Khalsa observed that the majority community has handed over the reigns of power to a person whose credentials and approach towards the minorities is questionable.
The organization has called upon the religious and ethnic minorities to come closer and bring their act together if they want to secure and protect their lives, aspirations and national honour.
Bhai Harcharanjit Singh Dhami
Dal Khalsa head H S Dhami said they have no expectation for betterment of Sikhs and Punjab with the change in guard. Neither Sikh problem will be solved nor would Sikh position change with the BJP replacing Congress at Centre, claims Singh. The single advantage will go to Badals as their bhau Harsimrat Kaur might be inducted in the Union Ministry.
“Both Congress and BJP are chips of the same block and there viewpoint on struggling people and their political aspirations are same”. Both had a history of crushing dissent, massacring minorities and denying them their rightful rights. Both have acted as tools of the repression against Sikhs and others”, he said.
Notably, Dal Khalsa has stayed away from elections arguing that elections under Indian dispensation won’t solve Sikh problem.
On electorate paying no heed to their groups boycott call and instead voting in favour of AAP, Dhami admitted that Punjabi’s were fed up with Congress and SAD-BJP combine and they were looking for workable alternative. Filing this void, the AAP penetrated into rank and file of Sikhs and Punjabi’s merely by raising its voice favouring justice for Prof Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar and Nov 1984 massacre beside promising to make Punjab a corruption-free state.
It is in this context that Punjabi’s have shown generosity by doling out 4 seats to untested party out of illusion that it ma