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Design emerging behind barbaric killing by Nihangs at Singhu border in the name of sacrilege

 



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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