Sikhs Attacked & Made Homeless In Uttaranchal

[sher_panjabi]

Guru Piyaari'o, Your Brothers and Sisters need your help!

While we are celebrating the Gurpurb Diwas of Guru Gobind Singh Jee, our Sikh brothers and sisters in Uttaranchal are being attacked, their farms are being destroyed and their being forced homeless.

PLEASE DO YOUR PANTHIC SEWA by EMAILING YOUR LOCAL MP.

Members of Parliament REPRESENT YOU. So GET THEM TO WORK FOR YOU and HELP!

http://www.ajitjalandhar.com/20060105/main1.htm

Sikh homes being forcefully bulldozered down by local authorities

sikh's green crop fields being forcefully destroyed and cleared.

Sikhs beaten mercilessly in Nagar Kirtan protest

Police beaten Sikh Sangat

sikhs protesting against banning of gurpurab's nagar kirtan

Sikh being less in population in Uttranchal are being discriminated openly. All the pictures were taken by Ajit's correspondents 1 day ago.

http://www.ajitjalandhar.com/20060105/main1.htm

What else you need to to wake up?

[sher_panjabi]

Here's a possible email template you could use to email your local MP:

Dear [MP NAME]

I am emailing you in regards to racial discrimination and abuse of human rights committed by Indian authorities against Sikhs living in Uttaranchal state of India. I am concerned for my Sikh brothers and their families living there. It seems there is no safety. I urge you to please find out from Indian Embassy what is happening and also ask the British Government to seek an enquiry and ask India to restore Human Rights in this state.

I am emailing you photos of the discrimination and human rights abuses committed against the Sikh population in Uttaranchal on 5th January 2005. The news source is: http://www.ajitjalandhar.com/20060105/main1.htm

[PHOTOS]

Sikh being less in population in Uttranchal are being discriminated openly. All the pictures were taken by Ajit's correspondents 1 day ago. http://www.ajitjalandhar.com/20060105/main1.htm

Please help to find out what is happening and put pressure to stop this oppression.

I await a reply from you,

[YOUR NAME]

[sher_panjabi]

family members picking things from their house before bulldozers come and destroy their homes without giving time to take their personal belongings and possesions.

Sikh women sitting in the street, forced homeless by local authorities

Sikh Women mourning

Sikh population protest agains the injustice and discrimination they are facing

[Guest militant singh]

ANOTHER REASON WHY I DEMAND KHALISTAN - CAN THE SIKH COMMUNITY WAKE UP EVEN AFTER 1984 ADN NOW THIS CONTINUES JAGO WAKE UP!

[raju123]

what is that sikh pm doing about this?

has the media been involved to say why this is happinning?

this is sad...india at its best.

[sher_panjabi]

Gurmukho!

Daas has emailed BBC News, Newsnight, Five News, ITN News, Guardian Newspaper, MP Tony Baldry, MP John McDonnell, The Sikh Times, Panjab Radio, Sikh Federation, MP Simon Hughes, and PM Tony Blair.

Benti to all Sangat, please go on different News websites and contact them. Furthermore email as many MPs as you can and most importantly email TONY BLAIR.

Here are a few web addresses and emails:

Contact BBC NewsWatch

Contact Five News

Email Members of Parliament (UK)

Email PM Tony Blair

ITN News Editor: editor@itn.co.uk

Editor of the Guardian Newspaper: editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk

[kurtas]

>>It seems the local authorities and the Hindu population have become jealous of the Sikhs prosperity in Uttaranchal

In your haste to sensationalise the story and get your political rhetoric across you forgot to mention that there were 50 non Sikh families who also evicted and received the same treatment as the Sikhs, no shelter, food etc.

I suggest that those advocating writing to MPs get their facts right before sending emails.

You have also forgot to mention that those evicted bought land that was subject to a court case at the time they bought it.

[sher_panjabi]

Comments from Learning Zone e-group:

 

This is tragic - the pictures at the above Ajit link speak for

themselves.

How does such treatment of own citizens tie up with the ONE Indian

nation ideal, or be justified under the Indian Constitution ? Also, why

are Panjabis barred from buying land and working in some other Indian

states when Panjab is open to all ?

Clearly devisive ("separatist"?) forces are at work WITHIN the Indian

system and have been at work since 1947. Why point fingers at

outsiders.

We, in the Sikh diaspora with close links with India, are often told

that we do not understand Indian issues and should not comment or

interfere. Perhaps someone from India can explain why such treatment of a hardworking community ?

I am sure the issue will be picked up by UK's Panjabi media.

 

Principal Gurmukh Singh (UK) 

[Singhstah]

>>It seems the local authorities and the Hindu population have become jealous of the Sikhs prosperity in Uttaranchal

In your haste to sensationalise the story and get your political rhetoric across you forgot to mention that there were 50 non Sikh families who also evicted and received the same treatment as the Sikhs, no shelter, food etc. 

I suggest that those advocating writing to MPs get their facts right before sending emails.

You have also forgot to mention that those evicted bought land that was subject to a court case at the time they bought it.

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yes, but that doesnt explain why they were barred from doing a nagar kirtan, that was an obvious discrimination against sikhs.

[kurtas]

Comments from Learning Zone e-group:

 

 

This is tragic - the pictures at the above Ajit link speak for

themselves.

How does such treatment of own citizens tie up with the ONE Indian

nation ideal, or be justified under the Indian Constitution ? Also, why

are Panjabis barred from buying land and working in some other Indian

states when Panjab is open to all ?

Clearly devisive ("separatist"?) forces are at work WITHIN the Indian

system and have been at work since 1947. Why point fingers at

outsiders.

We, in the Sikh diaspora with close links with India, are often told

that we do not understand Indian issues and should not comment or

interfere. Perhaps someone from India can explain why such treatment of a hardworking community ?

I am sure the issue will be picked up by UK's Panjabi media.

 

Principal Gurmukh Singh (UK) 

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Principal Ji makes some valid points.

However he forgets to metion that it is not just Punjabis that are prevented from buying land in certain other India states. No "outsiders" can buy land in Himachal regardless of whether you are from Punjab or Orissa.

As for outsiders being able to buy land in Punjab that is down to the Punjab sarkars. They could put their foot down and put a stop to this.