Anniversary Of Bluestar Operation

[Azaad]

Anniversary of Bluestar Operation

SGPC chief denounces violence

Varinder Walia

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, June 3

Denouncing the cult of violence on the eve of 24th anniversary of Operation Bluestar, SGPC president Avtar Singh has said nothing can be achieved through the gun.

“Terrorism is not a religion; it is a crime against humanity,” said the SGPC president. “We are living in such critical times in which clashes between political ideologies and narrow national interests have become very bitter the world over. The world is torn by misunderstanding, bitterness and strife in every sphere,” he said.

The SGPC president said the problem of terrorism could be resolved only if there was revival of spiritual humanism, which could guide us to truth and peace.

However, Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti, Jathedar, Akal Takht, who had received flak from Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, the SGPC and SAD presidents for supporting “Khalistan” during his recent trip to the USA, failed to come out with a clear stand on the issue.

On the other hand, Akali MLA Virsa Singh Valtoha, who was once active in the armed struggle and spent a long time in Jodhpur jail after Operation Bluestar, supported the point of the SGPC president that nothing could be achieved through the gun. He said all disputes could be resolved through democratic and peaceful means.

However, Satnam Singh, Paonta Sahib president, Dal Khalsa, who was one of five hijackers of an India Airlines plane to Lahore on September 29, 1981, to avenge the arrest of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, said the Sikhs never believed in killing innocent persons. He said the Dal Khalsa never used the path of violence since its inception on August 6, 1978. He, however, justified armed struggle in self-defence and to counter state terrorism.

Giving account of hijacking, the Paonta Sahib chief said they (the hijackers) had “used” apples as grenades, as they had only “kirpans” for weapons. When the plane landed in Lahore in spite of no permission from Pakistan, Gajinder Singh was allowed to hold negotiations with Natwar Singh, then Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad. However, the government of Pakistan “ditched” the hijackers by undertaking commando action against them and this commando action was possible because they were not carrying any firearm.

Harminder Singh Gill, general secretary, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, who had a long stint as president of the All-India Sikh Students Federation, parried all questions when The Tribune contacted him to seek his views on the cult of violence. Gill was a confidant of Bhinderanwale and spent many years in Jodhpur Jail after Operation Bluestar.

Ghallu-Ghara

Security beefed up

Our Correspondent

Pathankot, June 3

In view of the forthcoming Ghallu-Ghara week, the district has been put on the alert. This was stated by Lok Nath Angra, SSP, after a meeting at Gurdaspur today with taxi operators, hotel and cyber café owners, members of rehri unions, etc. Cyber café owners and STD/PCO owners were told to keep a record of the users.

The SSP said two anti-sabotage teams along with a dog squad would check vital installations, railway stations, bus stands, cinema theatres, crowded places, and sabji mandis.

[lowest of the low singhni]

..nothing could be achieved through the gun. He said all disputes could be resolved through democratic and peaceful means.

But we don't have any real democracy. Resolving everything peacefully would be ideal, but it hardly ever happens. Tyranny and greed exist. If there was no need for guns then next time they'll be saying there is no need for a Kirpan either. These people need the bubbles that they're living in popped with Guru Saheb's own pin of reality.

[khalistan_zindabaad]

sorry to say this but

WHO GIVES A CRAP what the sgpc chief has to say, he is a PUPPET, nothing more, try to tell that to the thousands that were attacked, raped made shaheed. 24 yrs on and why havent "all disputes been resolved through democratic and peaceful means" its just a pathetic attend to beg friends with the indian government.

[Akaal Purakh Di Fauj]

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

Keep in mind

"If you wish to deal in matters of the Faith, {Keep in mind that} if Sukha Singh and Mehtab Singh had come to Punjab to file a suit in order to catch Massa Ranghar, he would never have been caught.

If Baba Deep Singh Ji had sought writis {of the courts } from here, The Haidari Flag - of Afghans - would never have come down from Harminder Sahib.

If Bhai Banda Singh Bahadhur had consulted with commissioners and lawyers, it is certain that Wazir Khan would never have been captured."

Sri Maan Sant Gyani Baba Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindranwale, 1982

Sometimes picking up the sword is the only way left.

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Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

[singh_comradz]

..nothing could be achieved through the gun. He said all disputes could be resolved through democratic and peaceful means.

But we don't have any real democracy. Resolving everything peacefully would be ideal, but it hardly ever happens. Tyranny and greed exist. If there was no need for guns then next time they'll be saying there is no need for a Kirpan either. These people need the bubbles that they're living in popped with Guru Saheb's own pin of reality.

exactly, sikhs had exhausted all peaceful and political means during the punjab suba agitations and dharam yudh morcha, only to have a genocide infilicted on us in 84 and onwards.

also the likes of sgpc/akali dal are only after kursia/money and have sold out the sikh nation on numerous occasions

[caveman]

..nothing could be achieved through the gun. He said all disputes could be resolved through democratic and peaceful means.

But we don't have any real democracy. Resolving everything peacefully would be ideal, but it hardly ever happens. Tyranny and greed exist. If there was no need for guns then next time they'll be saying there is no need for a Kirpan either. These people need the bubbles that they're living in popped with Guru Saheb's own pin of reality.

exactly, sikhs had exhausted all peaceful and political means during the punjab suba agitations and dharam yudh morcha, only to have a genocide infilicted on us in 84 and onwards.

also the likes of sgpc/akali dal are only after kursia/money and have sold out the sikh nation on numerous occasions

exactlyyy