Akali Leader Shoots Police Official After
Harassing Daughter
Sikh Nation Needs to Do Better Job of Protecting
Daughters
WASHINGTON,
D.C., December 14, 2012 – Ranjit Singh Rana, general secretary of the Youth
Akali Dal in the Amritsar district, was arrested for the murder of police
Assitant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Ravinder Pal Singh after Singh demanded that Rana
stop harassing his daughter, Robinjeet Kaur, who is now a Naib Tehsildar in the
Revenue Department. Rana’s accomplices Dharam Singh, Prabhjit Singh, and
Gurbir Singh Bira, are in police custody. The other accomplice, Sandeep
Singh, is still being sought. Rana was appointed to his position by
Sukhbir Badal, son of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. The Indian
Express reported that Rana “played a key role in the victory of BJP councilors
from ward 63 and 65 in the recently held Amritsar municipal corporation
polls.” A resident of the Chheharta area, where Rana lives with his wife
and two children, says he was involved in the drug trade.
Robinjeet
Kaur said that she complained to the police about Rana’s harassment of her on
December 1. "However, no one listened. Had police acted on that day,
my father would have been alive today," she said. She said that
after her father confronted Rana, he shot the ASI in the leg. Robinjeet
Kaur sustained gunshot wounds on her hand. She rushed her father to the
hospital in her car. Rana and his associates came to the hospital with a
rifle and when Ravinder Pal Singh was getting out of the car, Rana shot him.
“It is
shameful that the Akali Dal has made a person like this one of its leaders,”
said Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President of the Council of Khalistan.
“Shame on the Akali Dal (Badal),” he said. “Previously, as the late
General Narinder Singh said, it was a police state in Punjab. Now it has
deteriorated into a Badal Goonda state. The Badal regime has completely
destroyed the Sikh religion and Sikh values. The Sikh Nation must stop
them.”
“As long as
Punjab, Khalistan remains under Indian occupation, things like this are going
to keep happening,” said Dr. Aulakh. “The cure is a sovereign,
independent Khalistan,” he said. “Khalistan must be free so we can
protect our daughters. Ravinder Pal Singh died trying to protect his
daughter. The Sikh Nation cannot tolerate these insults,” he said.
“In a free Khalistan, nobody will dare to do the kinds of things that Ranjit
Singh Rana did. Freedom for Khalistan is is essential to stop the
goondaism that is destroying Punjab.”
The tyranny
and violence against the Sikhs have been going on for many years. After
1984, it was the police who were committing genocide against the Sikh
Nation. Now it is Badal’s goons. A report issued by the Movement
Against State Repression (MASR) quotes the Punjab Civil Magistracy as writing
“if we add up the figures of the last few years the number of innocent persons
killed would run into lakhs [hundreds of thousands.]” According to Sardar
Mann, the Indian government has murdered over a million Sikhs since 1982.
Sardar Inderjit Singh Jaijee, author of The Politics of Genocide, and Bibi
Baljit Kaur of the Movement Against State Repression (MASR) told Dr. Aulakh
that if it were not for the efforts of the Council of Khalistan, that number
might be ten times as high. India has also killed more than 300,000
Christians in Nagaland, over 100,000 Muslims in Kashmir, and tens of thousands
of Tamils, Assamese, Bodos, Manipuris, and others. The Indian Supreme Court
called the Indian government's murders of Sikhs "worse than a genocide.”
“We need a
free Khalistan,” said Dr. Aulakh. “That is the only way to stop the
violence and corruption. I appeal to the Sikh Nation to pressure the
Badal government to end the oppression of the Sikh Nation by its appointed
officials. The present Akalis use the pious name of the old Akali Dal to
terrorize and insult the daughters of Punjab. By freeing Khalistan, we
can stop this. As Professor Darshan Singh said, ‘If a Sikh is not a
Khalistani, he is not a Sikh’,” Dr. Aulakh noted. “Sikhs must stand up to the
Badal goondas and the Indian regime and claim our birthright.”
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Parmjit
Singh Sekhon (Dakha)
Advisor
Council
of Khalistan
President
Dal
Khalsa Alliance
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