Design behind
killing of sacrilege accused to derail farm struggle start surfacing
Ground Zero
Jagtar Singh
Suddenly, it
is falling in place.
The
surfacing of pictures of Aman Singh associated with the Nihang group camping at
Singhu border near the site of farmers protest with Union Agriculture Minister
Narendra Singh Tomar has unleashed multi-dimensional narrative associated with
the farm struggle and the design to derail it. A design has now started
emerging beginning with the January 26 incident at the Red Fort.
Several YouTube
channels today contacted Aman Singh to have his version but he remained evasive
while making one interesting revelation to one channel that his group was
camping at Singhu border not in support of the farm struggle but to seek
justice for continuing cases of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy book that has
the status of Guru Incarnate, a claim that this group has never made earlier.
This camp
hit the headlines when mutilated body of
a person with a hand and a leg chopped off was found tied to a police barricade
next to the camp of the Nihangs who claimed responsibility for the horrendous
action.
The Nihangs
attributed this action accusing the
victim for sacrilege of their Granth that is not Guru Granth Sahib as
impression was created on the first day.
Now the dots
are getting linked.
The victim
was a poor druggist from border village Cheema under Serai Amanat Khan police station
in Tarn Taran district. Having been deserted by his family, he was being
supported by his sister. How did he manage to reach Singhu border and that too
in the camp of the Nihangs?
He was
attired as a Nihang although he was not keeping his hair.
The Nihang
who surrendered later owning responsibility for the killing, it emerged, did
not have fully grown hair and it was said that he was a recent convert. At the
social level, both the victim and the accused belong to the same section of
society known as Dalits.
The Granth
that was said to be desecrated was not Guru Granth Sahib but Sarbloh Granth
that is compilation of some Hindu mythological narrative and its authorship is
controversial.
The Sikhs
have to decide whether such books too can be equated with Guru Granth Sahib in
the context of sacrilege. It is for the Sikh institutions like the Shiromani
Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and the Akal Takht to issue clarification to end
increasing confusion and division in the broader Sikh society on such issues.
It is
pertinent to mention here that the members of this very group had gone to the
Red Fort on January 26 when Nishan Sahib, the Sikh religio-political flag- was
hoisted there evoking very strong reaction against the farmers struggle. A section
of the protesters not linked to the Samyukt Kisan Morcha had diverted the tractor
march to ring road with the police
withdrawing from the scene. This group reached Red Fort without any effort by
police to block them. Rest is history.
This group
had some people from the group that had been trying to divert the farm struggle
to issues like Anandpur Sahib Resolution. Some activists from the earlier phase
of Sikh radical struggle were part of this group. These people used to be scene
with these nihangs. They disappeared after January 26, 2020.
Here is
another example. People from this very section are now targeting a newspaper
that is known to be ardent supporter of the farm struggle. Interesting.
And now Aman
Singh has told several YouTube channels that his group is not part of the farmers
struggle but sitting here to seek justice for incidents of sacrilege in
Punjab that have been reported since
2015.
Apparently, none
can question the objective.
However, the
channel for seeking justice for sacrilege is not Tomar but Home Minister Amit
Shah and moreover, law and order is a state subject. Has this group ever called
on the Punjab Chief Minister for this purpose?
Punjab has
witnessed intense agitation on Bargari sacrilege issue. Was this group ever
part of such struggles seeking justice for sacrilege?
One has also
to go into role of the Nihang groups in Punjab in the post-1947 narrative of
the Sikh struggles.
No main
group of Nihangs has been part of any Sikh struggle in Punjab all these years.
Rather they
have been used by the State from time to time, including both during and after
Operation Bluestar and all this is part of the record. It is too well known as
to how the Nihang group headed by Ajit Singh Poohla was used against the Sikh
militants by the agencies.
It is time
for the Sikhs to take rational decisions.
The design
to sabotage the farm struggle stands exposed.
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