Sikhs are unlike Hindus: Dal Khalsa

nanosecond · October 14, 2003

Tribune India

Monday, 13th October 2003

Hoshiarpur -- The Dal Khalsa stated that Sikhs were neither idol-worshippers nor they believed in 33 crore Gods and Goddesses.

Talking to the mediapersons after addressing a conference of party activists assembled at Singh Sabha Gurdwara here yesterday, Mr Harcharanjit Singh working president of the Dal Khalsa accused the Sangh Parivar for spreading terrorism under the garb of so called nationalism. Asserting the separate identity of the Sikhs, he said that unlike Hindus, Sikhs believed in one God (Waheguru). They had their own traditions, history, scriptures, calendar, language and culture.

He said that the BJP government was patronising the likes of Mr K.S. Sudarshan and Mr Parveen Togadia who had challenged the fundamentals of the Sikh religion during their visit to Chandigarh and Amritsar.

Speakers attacked the Shiromani Akali Dal for joining hands with the BJP. They made an appeal to silent Hindu majority to nail the likes of Sudarshan and Togadia as they claimed to represent Hindu aspirations. “We are for peaceful co-existence. Hindu brothers must realise that acts of the RSS (Search) and the VHP were disturbing the relations between both the communities”, said Dal Khalsa general secretary Kanwar Pal Singh.

The convention called to discuss Sikh religion vis-a-vis casteism virtually turned into RSS bashing. Sikh intellectuals like Dr Gurdarshan Singh Dhillon, former president of institute of Sikh Studies and Prof Jagdish Singh Mukherian also spoke.

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