NEW YEAR MESSAGE
TO THE KHALSA PANTH
December 14,
2012
Let 2013
Bring Freedom to the Sikh Nation
May Guru
Bless the Khalsa Panth in 2013
With
Freedom, Happiness, Honor, Dignity, and Prosperity
Liberating
Khalistan Must Be Focus of New Year
Dear Khalsa
Ji:
WAHEGURU JI
KA KHALSA, WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH!
Please let
me take this opportunity to wish a Happy New Year to you and your family and
the Khalsa Panth. May 2013 be your best year yet. I wish you an
abundance of health, joy, and prosperity.
Freedom is a
basic right of all peoples and nations. The flame of freedom continues to
burn brightly in the heart of the Sikh Nation. No force can suppress
it. Guru Gobind Singh blessed the Khalsa Panth, saying “In grieb Sikhin
ko deon Patshahi.” (“I bless the Sikh nation with sovereignty.”) The Sikh
Nation must dedicate this year to working hard to achieve that goal.
Self-determination is the right of all peoples and nations and
self-determination is the essence of democracy.
James Madison,
the primary author of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth President of the
United States, warned of the “tyranny of the majority.” That is why the
U.S. Constitution has strong protections for minority and individual rights and
a republican, decentralized governmental structure. India, the
self-proclaimed “world’s largest democracy,” is proof that Madison was
absolutely right. Without effective protection for individual
rights and those of communities and states, the majority runs roughshod over
the rights, interests, and lives of the minorities. India routinely does
this to Sikhs, Christians, Muslims, and other minorities. It is not a
true democracy.
Recently, an
official of the Akali Dal (Badal) was arrested for killing a police officer
after the police official confronted him about harassing his daughter.
This is a sad example of the moral degeneracy of the Sikh nation under the
leadership of the Akali Dal (Badal), which is an agent of the
regime. Previously, Punjab was a police state. Now it has
degenerated into a Badal Goonda state. We must protect our
daughters. The daughters of Punjab are precious and must be
protected. Even Harsimranjit Kaur, daughter-in-law of Chief Minister
Badal and a Member of Parliament, has said nothing about this dishonoring of
the daughters of Punjab. Where is she? Why has she not spoken
up? Sikhs are not safe anywhere in India. This is further evidence
that we need a sovereign, independent Khalistan.
I am
appealing to former Akal Takht Jathedar Bhai Ranjit Singh, a good, strong Sikh,
to lead an effort to combat this moral degeneration among the Sikhs in
Punjab. He is the man to do it, as he has demonstrated a strong
commitment to Sikh values and principles, including his declared support for
Khalistan. But no one person can do it alone. It is the
responsibility of all Sikhs to engage in this effort to reclaim our values and
principles.
Indian
police arrested Baba Baljit Singh Daduwal and 700 other marchers when they
marched to demand the rebuilding of the Gyan Godhri Gurdwara in Hardwar.
The Gurdwara, which hosted Guru Nanak, the first Sikh Guru, was demolished in
the 1984 massacre of Sikhs after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi. After the demolition, the BJP built an office and toilets on the
site. Sikhs appealed to the BJP and the government of Uttaranchal Pradesh
to remove the building and give the land back to the Sikhs. (According to
land records, the land belongs to the Gurdwara Sahib.) The government
offered the Sikhs land elsewhere for a Gurdwara, but they objected, saying the
Gurdwara should be in the same place where Guru Nanak preached and demonstrated
the folly of ritualism. The SGPC has now agreed to build a Gurdwara on
the site, which is their job. They should not have had to be forced to do
their job, but they are under the thumb of the Indian regime. Again, this
demonstrates why we need a sovereign, independent Khalistan.
As Sardar
Mann has said, “The only solution to the Punjab and Sikh problem is an independent
Khalistan. The establishment of Khalistan is of the utmost importance. To
keep peace in South Asia, a buffer state of Khalistan is essential.” In
1986, Baba Gurbachan Singh Manochal, then Jathedar of the Akal Takht Sahib, who
was later killed by the Indian government, held a Sarbat Khalsa on April 29,
1986 at Akal Takht Sahib, which passed a resolution for Khalistan. Then
on October 7, 1987, Jathedar Manochal and the Panthic Committee declared
Khalistan independent. They formed the Council of Khalistan as the
government pro tempore and Dr. Aulakh as its president to lead the struggle for
independence by gathering support from the Sikh diaspora and the international
community. Since then, the Council of Khalistan has led the effort,
working very hard to achieve independence. India must recognize the
freedom of Khalistan and withdraw its occupying forces. In a democracy,
you cannot continue to rule against the wishes of the people.
Neither the
Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) nor the Congress Party can be acceptable to any
true Sikh. Badal maintains a political alliance with the Hindu
nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the political arm of the Rashtriya
Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), which openly wants to destroy the Sikh religion and
all other non-Hindu religions. But the Congress Party is no better.
It was the party that is guilty of attacking the Golden Temple in June 1984, in
which India murdered over 20,000 Sikhs including Sant Bhindranwale, General
Shabeg Singh, Bhai Amrik Singh, over 100 Sikh youth ages 8 to 13, and others.
Both of those parties want to destroy the Sikh religion and other
minorities, including Christians, Muslims, and others.
Sant Jarnail
Singh Bhindranwale said that if India attacked the Golden Temple, it would lay
the foundation for Khalistan. He was right. After the June 1984
attack, the movement for Khalistan was energized. The Indian troops
burned the Sikh library, destroyed Hukam Namas and other historical documents,
and took many other items which are the property of the Khalsa Panth. To
this day, those items have not been returned.
Sikhs have
suffered too much already under the yoke of Indian persecution since
independence, especially over the past 25 years. We have seen the attack
on the Golden Temple, over 250,000 Sikhs murdered and over 52,000 held as
political prisoners, the murder of the Akal Takht Jathedar, more than 50,000
Sikh youth tortured, murdered, then declared unidentified and secretly
cremated, their bodies never returned to their families. Their families
continue to suffer. Let us find the vision to throw off this
repression. With that vision, the Sikh Nation will flourish; without it,
we will perish and India’s effort to eradicate Sikhism will succeed. The
sooner we can liberate Khalistan, the better.
Sikhs are
NOT Hindus. The Sikh religion was established by Guru Nanak. It has
ten Gurus. The last guru, Guru gobind Singh, gave Guruship permanently to
the Guru Granth Sahib. Sikhs don’t believe in the caste system; Hindus
do. The caste system is essential to Hinduism. Hindus don’t believe
in equality. Sikhs believe all people are equal, including gender
equality. Hindus believe women are inferior. Thus, Sikhs can’t be
Hindus. At age 5, Guru Nanak refused to wear the Hindu ceremonial thread,
the Jannau. Sikhism is the youngest religion in the world and its fifth
largest. Hindus claim that Sikhism, Buddhism, and Jainism are all
branches of Hinduism. None of them is. I am surprised they didn’t
claim Christianity is a branch of Hinduism too. If Sikhs, Buddhists,
Jains, and others are part of Hinduism, why are the Hindus killing and
persecuting them? Guru Nanak and Buddha were from Hindu families.
Jesus was from a Jewish family. Does that make Christianity a part of
Judaism?
I appeal to
Dalit Sikhs to join the Sikhs who are fighting for Khalistan and take a leading
role. You are the sons of Guru Gobind Singh (“Rangele Guru Ke
Bete.”) Other Sikhs are followers of Guru Gobind Singh. It is time
for the sons of the Guru to be involved in freeing the Sikh Nation.
Let us
dedicate our energy this year to achieving the establishment of
Khalistan. Any organization that sincerely supports Khalistan deserves
the support of the Sikh Nation. None has worked harder for that cause
than this office. When Khalistan is free, Sikhs can resolve all issues in
a way that benefits the Khalsa Panth. Remember the words of former
Jathedar of the Akal Takht Professor Darshan Singh: “If a Sikh is not a
Khalistani, he is not a Sikh.” There is no place for Sikhs in supposedly
secular, supposedly democratic India. In a free Khalistan, minorities
will have equal rights and all will be respected. Khalistan is the only
way that Sikhs will be able to live in freedom, peace, prosperity, and dignity.
Let that be the mission of 2013.
India is not
a single country. It is a polyglot of many nations thrown together by the
British colonialists for their administrative convenience. It has 18
official languages. History shows that such countries do not long endure.
Austria-Hungary, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia are some
examples. The breakup of India is inevitable. We pray that it will
be peaceful like the breakup of Czechoslovakia and not violent like that of
Yugoslavia.
Let us work
to make certain that 2013 is the Sikh Nation’s most blessed year by making sure
it is the year that we shake ourselves loose from the yoke of Indian oppression
and liberate our homeland, Khalistan, so that all Sikhs may live lives of
prosperity, freedom, and dignity. Now it is up to us. Do not waste
this opportunity.
May Guru
bless the Khalsa Panth.
Sincerely,
Dr. Gurmit
Singh Aulakh
President
Council of
Khalistan
*****
Posted
by
Parmjit
Singh Sekhon (Dakha)
Advisor
Council
of Khalistan
President
Dal
Khalsa Alliance
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