Jagtar Singh

Ground Zero Punjab police again pushing Sikh youth to radical domain by resorting to repression   The letter was unprecedented.   It was addressed by Jathedar of Akal Takht Sahib Giani Gurdial Singh Ajnoha to Chief Minister Darbara Singh on December 31, 1981.   Jathedar Ajnoha said, “In case you don’t stop this, it might spark revolt among the Sikh masses and religious people like me might have to make sacrifices to stop it”. (Aggar Aap Ne Is Nu Na Rokiya Taan Ho Sakda Hai Ki Sikh Sangataan Vich Police De Virudh Bagawat Da Zazba Paida Ho Jaave Te Mere Varge Dharam Vich Vishwash Rakhan Wale Bandian Nu Aapni Kurbani De Ke Is Zulam Nu Rokna Pave.)   This was a letter against police repression on innocents in Punjab. Almost four decades later when Giani Harpreet Singh who occupies the same seat of the supreme religio-political institution symbolising sovereignty of the Sikh doctrine, his taking up the same issue   was reminiscent of Jathedar Ajnoha...

                                       Is Dhindsa Congress agent, part of some deeper design or rebel? The issue of Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa forming a new Akali Dal being part of some broader design has arisen precisely because of the usual allegation of his being propped up by the Congress that has been leveled by the party of which he had been a member all his life-the Shiromani Akali Dal. This is not for the first time that a senior Akali leader has formed a new party since Sukhbir Singh Badal took over as the president of the formation that for decades articulated the Panthic issues. That character got completely eroded after the sacrilege related religio-political dynamics beginning with Bargari. Even on the farmers’ related issues, Sukhbir has taken the stand that is diametrically opposite to the general perception in Punjab. He himself said recently in Jalalabad that all the far...

  Khalistan returns to political discourse with centre’s decision on Sikh radical leaders abroad At the time when universalism and humanitarian content of the Sikh doctrine has pushed the Sikh identity to the global centre stage in the crisis ridden world, the Modi government has brought the issue of Khalistan back in the political discourse by declaring seven Khalistani activists as ‘individual terrorists’. Earlier, the issue had been raked up when Akal Takht acting Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh had asserted that every Sikh aspire for homeland as it was for the first time this subject had been raised by the chief of this supreme religio-political seat symbolising sovereignty of the Sikh doctrine. In a sudden move, the Centre yesterday listed Gurpatwant Singh Pannu, Wadhawa Singh Babbar, Ranjit Singh Neeta, Hardeep Singh Nijjer, Lakhbir Singh Rode, Paramjit Singh Panjwar, Bhupinder Singh Bhinda, Gurmeet Singh Bagga and Paramjit Singh from Babbar Khalsa UK as terrorists. All of them...