And You Say We Dont Need Khalistan? Turbans Banned In Chandigarh School

[dasmesh_regiment]

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3 students punished for wearing turbans

Express News Service

Mohali, April 29 After France, it is now Mohali banning students from wearing turbans in schools. Three students of Class X of Lawrence Public School were today asked to leave their classrooms by the school authorities for wearing turbans and were made to sit in a separate room as punishment.

Principal Veena Malhotra said they had flouted the rules of the school which reads ‘the students upto class X should wear patka but she failed to produce any such rule written in the school diary.

The Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee, however, demanded action against the school.

Inderjeet Singh, Gursewak Singh and Ravinder Singh, all class X students, had come to school wearing turbans. About 9.30 am, the school principal visited the class and asked these three students to get up and come out. “She asked us not to wear turbans in the school, claiming that it doesn’t look nice,” claimed Gursewak Singh.

They were asked to take their school bags out of the class and were directed not to attend any class for the whole day as punishment. The authorities said that they will impose a fine of Rs 50 per day if they wear turbans in the school, one of the students said.

Principal Veena Malhotra said their dress code does not allow turbans and it is mandatory for students of upto Class X.

“We have prescribed patka for Sikh students and they should abide by the rules of the school. We asked them to sit in a separate room just because they flouted the norms. We will not let them attend classes if they wear turbans again,” she added.

But she failed to produce any such rule existing in the rulebook and any such norm ever being communicated to the students.

The SGPC has demanded action against the school. Hardeep Singh, member of SGPC from Mohali, said they will protest against the disrepute brought to the Sikh religion by the school authorities and will take up the matter with the SGPC.

“Turban is a part of Sikhism and nobody can deter Sikh students from wearing them,” he added.

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[~Preeti~]

in all seriousness who here thinks we dont need khalistan?

[N30S1NGH]

I(now sue me), I beleive in Khalsa raj mentioned in ugardanti in sri dasam granth( yeah sue me on that statement too)

[~Preeti~]

what does the dasam granth say about it?

[lost generation]

Do we need a Khalistan or a Punjabistan should be the question.

Khalistan would be more approperiate as a small autonomous Sikh state within the Indian union. Much like how some Sikh sovereign kingdoms (jind, patiala,etc) operated at the time of the british empire.

A Sikh punjabistan (comprising of west and east punjab) would be more approperiate for out right self-determination and independance from both india and pakistan.

[saint-soldier]

Dont know about khalistan but we certainly dont need these so called leaders representing the sikhs.

[guptveer1469]

we need the Republic of Khalistan

and any other Sikh country

what we need isnt khalistan

but any any sikh majority country where most of the sikhs arent monas and the country is ruled by sikhs

[sikhadishaan]

this is the more reason why we need khalistan....

[torontosikh]

Quick question: I am pro Sikh State as well, but sometimes I am in doubt. I completely understand the present and past history and wrongs done to us. But I don’t understand is that, its only the foreign Sikhs (not a big number) who are demanding Sikh state, if you go to Punjab, no one is interested in that, and none of us foreign Sikhs have gone to Punjab and demanded Sikh state.

On top of this, all the pro Hallstand Sikhs are shying away from their demand as well (recent example at Toronto Nagar Kirtan and most of them asked for pardon and went to India to visit or business), so why are we wasting energy and money. Can't we use the same time and money to lobby and get better rights for Sikhs in Punjab? Can’t we spend the same money and work towards development of Punjab and Sikhs there. You think now is the time to fight against the state? We couldn't do anything in '84 and Sant ji never demanded Khalistan, he was only fighting for rights, we should start playing a constructive role now instead of hurting ourselves.

[dasmesh_regiment]

we wont obtain khalistan at this point in time, probably not for another 30 years but it will be achieved.

once achieved, it may only last 20 years, we dont know, but it is worth it.