Sedition and democracy, state and
sikh religious institutions management
"Challenge
of state to wounded Sikh psyche again after 31 years " Sarbat Khalsa
gathering of hundreds of thousands of Sikhs without any specific leadership was
the show of Sikh anger or dissatisfaction towards the way Sikh issues being
treated in state set up . Arousing response of Sikh Sangat in Sarbat Khalsa
towards the Gurmatas was representing the Sikh psyche towards Sikh related
issues . In a democratic set up , states respond to citizens choices but brutal
regimes prefer their personnel interests over citizens choices. Response of
state towards the citizens's choices of Sarbat Khalsa show it's real face of brutal
regime rather than democratic state. Dictators normally dub opposition views as
sedition . This is what state has done with Sikh leaders after Sarbat Khalsa .
They been arrested under sedition charges Even global Sikh diaspora leaders
which went to Sarbat Khalsa as part of Sikh Panth and that too specifically in
regard to misuse of Sikh institutions which belong to entire Sikh nation , not
only to the Sikhs living in Punjab ,they been charged with sedition , do not
make any sense when India is not their primary country but Sikh institutions
situated in India are their institutions also as Sikhs . So how come state is
responding with anti state charges entirely on basis of Sikhs's internal faith
issues. It is internal matter of Sikhs living in India or abroad . What Indian
state sedition has to do with it . It is totally act of challenge of Indian
state to Sikhs regarding the sovereignty of Sikh institutions .
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