Jagtar Singh

The signals were already there. The decision of the Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party government to accord sanction to prosecute Left leader and former JNU president Kanhaiya Kumar under the colonial sedition charge has only confirmed it. He has positioned his party not just at Right of the Centre but also as second line of the Sangh Parivar. This positioning fits perfectly in the framework of Kejriwal having emerged as the leader from Anna Hazare led movement against corruption subtly designed by the Sangh sympathetic Delhi based Vivekananda Institute. The controversial law of sedition is back into focus as the dissenters are being charged under this legislation enacted by the British rulers. There is no such law in UK, the country that framed it to rule over India. The law is a legacy of slavery of India. This law suits the rulers and reinforces the perception that the Indians continue to be dictated by the same mentality. Kejriwal did not intervene or even react when t...

India should understand as to how Pakistan wins over the devotees visiting Kartarpur Sahib through the visa free access corridor in six hours, the total time that the visitors spend at the shrine where Guru Nanak finally settled after long sojourns across the regions in Asia. This is the key to the entire problem that has made the Kartarpur Sahib shrine suspect and perceived to be a security threat by India. Punjab Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta had recently made the revelation about this perception in his controversial interview in which he talked of Pakistan’s capacity to turn Sikh devotees into instant terrorists within six hours. It may be mentioned that the police earlier questioned some devotees from Deriwal village in Gurdaspur district who had recently returned from paying obeisance at Kartarpur Sahib provoking strong reaction. The opposition took it up in the ongoing budget session of the Assembly. Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Friday justified the ...

Chandigarh: What is happening over the last over more than 36 hours in Delhi, the capital of world largest democracy, is virtual repeat of 1984. The slogan that provoked the mobs against Sikhs in 1984 was ‘Khoon Ka Badla Khoon Se Lenge’ that was raised at AIIMS where the body of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had been brought. She was gunned down by two of her security men who were Sikhs. She was killed on October 31, 1984 to avenge army attack code-named Operation Bluestar on the Golden Temple (Darbar Sahib) in June 1984, the first such action in free India. The build-up against the Sikhs had been going on for months. The ruling party at that time was the ‘secular’ Congress. The victims now are the Muslims. The ruling party at the centre now is the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Muslim community supported by the aware Indians irrespective of religion have been protesting against the CAA that along with NPR and NRC could target them and make many of them non-Indians. The...

The issue of a separate gurdwara management committee for Haryana has returned to the religio-political discourse in Punjab following the revised submission made by the state government in the Supreme Court that it has no objection to the formation of Haryana Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. The Punjab government had earlier opposed the Haryana government decision in the apex court when the chief minister was Parkash Singh Badal heading the Akali Dal-BJP government. The Akali Dal submitted a memorandum to the state Governor on Friday seeking his intervention to reverse the decision of the state government. Party chief Sukhbir Singh Badal is reported to have accused Amarinder government of “conspiring to weaken Sikh institutions including the SGPC by supporting the idea of a separate gurdwara body for Haryana with the sole aim of fulfilling the anti-Sikh agenda of the Gandhi family”. The controversial issue has both constitutional as well as political dimensions. The decisi...